1. Mahmoud Alavi was formerly minister of intelligence in first and second government of Hassan Rouhani.
11 Facts About Mahmoud Alavi
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Mahmoud Alavi holds a PhD in Islamic jurisprudence and law from Ferdowsi University in Mashad.
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Mahmoud Alavi is the former head of the political and ideological body of the Iranian Army to which he was appointed by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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Mahmoud Alavi served at the Majlis as Tehran representative for four terms during the terms of former presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami.
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Mahmoud Alavi ran for office in the list of Resistance Front of the Islamic Revolution led by Mohsen Rezaee in the 2012 election.
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Mahmoud Alavi is a former member of the Assembly of Experts.
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Mahmoud Alavi served as Hassan Rouhani's liaison officer for the city of Qom and the institutions there in the 2013 presidential elections.
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Mahmoud Alavi was designated as intelligence minister by Rouhani on 4 August 2013.
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Ali Reza Eshraghi of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that Mahmoud Alavi is a principalist politician in the Iranian political arena.
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Mahmoud Alavi is, therefore, a conservative figure and close to Mohsen Rezaee.
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Mahmoud Alavi publicly criticized the Ali Akbar Rafsanjani's disqualification for the 2013 presidential election soon after the election.