1. Rostam Ghasemi was an Iranian military officer and conservative politician who was the Minister of Roads and Urban Development from 25 August 2021 to 22 November 2022.
11 Facts About Rostam Ghasemi
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Rostam Ghasemi was Minister of Petroleum from 3 August 2011 to 15 August 2013.
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Rostam Ghasemi served as the governor of the Fars Province from 1980 to 1988.
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Rostam Ghasemi graduated from Sharif University of Technology, studying civil engineering.
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Rostam Ghasemi joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Kharg Island in 1979.
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Rostam Ghasemi was the chair of the IRGC-affiliated Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters from 2007 to 2011.
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Rostam Ghasemi was approved by the parliament on 3 August 2011, being the fourth oil minister in the Ahmedinejad government.
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Rostam Ghasemi received 216 votes of the 246 Majlis members.
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Rostam Ghasemi was the president of the OPEC for 2011, despite being on the US, EU and Australian sanction list since 2010.
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Rostam Ghasemi was seen in a photograph dated 2011 in Malaysia cuddling a woman without hijab alleged to be his non-married girlfriend, in conflict with the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran's government when he was the minister of oil, a cabinet position in that government.
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On 8 December 2022, Rostam Ghasemi died of illness in China, aged 58.