15 Facts About Mostafa Tajzadeh

Sayyid Mostafa Tajzadeh is an Iranian reformist politician and a senior member of Islamic Iran Participation Front, as well as Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization.

Mostafa Tajzadeh was imprisoned at Evin Prison from 2009 until 2016.

Mostafa Tajzadeh is a member of Association of Iranian Journalists.

In 1975, Mostafa Tajzadeh went to the United States to study and became a member of Muslim Students Association, active against Shah of Iran.

Mostafa Tajzadeh served as the Political deput of the Ministry of Interior of Iran in the government of Mohammad Khatami, and under the Minister Abdollah Noori, since 1997, after being introduced to Noori by Gholamhossein Karbaschi and Mohammad Atrianfar.

Mostafa Tajzadeh started working in the Islamic Republic government as an employee of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in May 1982.

Mostafa Tajzadeh went up to become a vice minister when Mohammad Khatami was the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

Mostafa Tajzadeh left the ministry after a while, and worked for the newspaper Hamshahri until 1997.

Mostafa Tajzadeh was one of seven leading reformists who filed a lawsuit against several commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for their alleged intervention in Iran's presidential elections.

Mostafa Tajzadeh was barred from all government employment for three years, but did not appeal the verdict.

Mostafa Tajzadeh was convicted of "assembly and collusion against national security" and "propaganda against the regime", sentenced to 6 years in prison and a 10-year ban on political and press activities by Branch 15 of the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court.

Mostafa Tajzadeh was imprisoned in Evin Prison from 2009 until 2016.

Mostafa Tajzadeh's wife is Fakhrossadat Mohtashamipour, the niece of cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur.

Mostafa Tajzadeh has lived in the United States for 31 months.

Mr Mostafa Tajzadeh acknowledges that he did not study in the US at all.