1. Mohsen Mirdamadi is an Iranian academic and politician.
16 Facts About Mohsen Mirdamadi
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Mohsen Mirdamadi is the Deputy Secretary General of "Ettehad-e Mellat", the largest pro-reform political party in Iran.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1997 in Foreign Relations.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi has served in various political roles since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, including serving as the governor of Khuzestan province in the last years of the Iran-Iraq war.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was among the organizers of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was among the organizers of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was the governor of the bordered Khuzestan Province in the last couple of years of the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi has earned his PhD in Foreign Relationships from the University of Cambridge in 1997.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was elected as a member of the parliament of Iran from 2000 until 2004, in which he chaired the parliament's Commission of National Security and Foreign Policy.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was the Secretary-General of "the largest pro-reform party" in Iran, Islamic Iran Participation Front since 11 August 2006 until the front was disbanded by an Iranian court.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was sentenced and put to 6 years of prison, among other leaders of reformist parties, after the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi is the deputy secretary general of the "Ettehad-e Mellat" political party, which is the largest pro-reform party in Iran.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi led a few Iranian delegates visiting other countries and officials and led the first Iranian delegate that visited the EU Parliament since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was the director of the Nowruz newspaper which covered Iranian reformists points of view.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi was banned from running for re-election in the parliament, in the February 2004 along with 80 other incumbents, and along with 2500 non-incumbents by the Council of Guardians.
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Mohsen Mirdamadi finished his six-year sentence in Evin prison, and was released on 2017.