Mostafa Mir-Salim

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Mostafa Mir-Salim
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Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance
In office
28 August 1994 – 19 August 1997
President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Preceded by Ali Larijani
Succeeded by Ata'ollah Mohajerani
Personal details
Born (1947-06-09) June 9, 1947 (age 77)
Tehran, Iran
Political party Islamic Coalition Party
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Republican Party (1980–87)
Alma mater University of Poitiers
École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique
IFP School
Religion Islam

Seyed Mostafa Agha Mirsalim[1] (born 9 June 1947) is a conservative Iranian politician and engineer.

He obtained B.Sc. in Mechanics from Universite de Poitiers in 1969, M.Sc. in Mechanics from École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique and M.Sc. Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics from Attestation d`Eludes Approfondies, Universite de Poitiers both in 1971 and M.Sc. in Internal Combustion Engines from Ecole Nationale superieure de Petrole et des Moteurs in 1972.[2]

Mir-Salim served as the national police chief following the Iranian Revolution.[3] He was proposed by then president Abulhassan Banisadr in July 1980 as a candidate for prime minister as a compromise candidate acceptable to both Banisadr and the Majlis dominated by the Islamic Republican Party.[3][4] However, Banisadr was pressured to accept Mohammad-Ali Rajai instead.[4] From 1981 to 1989, Mir-Salim was the advisor to then president Ayatollah Khamenei.[5]

Mir-Salim was appointed Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance in 1994.[5] His tenure was characterized by a strongly conservative Islamist direction, aiming to stave off the "cultural onslaught" of Western culture and promote pious Islamic culture in its place, including through the use of repressive measures. The Ministry under his direction was particularly known for closing a number of reformist newspapers.[6]

He was later appointed to the Expediency Discernment Council.[citation needed]

He is Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran.[1]

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