Habibollah Bitaraf

{{short description|Iranian reformist politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| office1 = Minister of Energy

| president1 = Mohammad Khatami

| predecessor1 = Bijan Namdar Zangeneh

| successor1 = Parviz Fattah

| term_start1 = 20 August 1997

| term_end1 = 24 August 2005

| office3 = Governor of Yazd Province

| president3 = Ali Khamenei

| primeminister3 = Mir-Hossein Mousavi

| predecessor3 = Morteza Fattah

| successor3 = Abdulali Hamidia

| term_start3 = 1986

| term_end3 = 1989

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}}

| birth_place = Yazd, Iran

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| party = Islamic Iran Participation Front

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| alma_mater = University of Tehran

| nationality = Iranian

| profession = Civil engineer{{Citation|last1=Buchta|first1=Wilfried|title= Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic|publisher=The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung| place=Washington DC|year=2000|isbn=0-944029-39-6|pages=40, 180}}

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Habibolah Bitaraf ({{langx|fa|حبیب‌الله بی‌طرف}}) is an Iranian reformist{{citation|url=https://www.iranwire.com/en/features/4757|title=Rouhani Announces New Cabinet: Few Reformists, No Women|date=8 August 2017|access-date=17 August 2017|work=Iran Wire|author=Reza Haghighatnejad}} politician. He was Energy Minister for 8 years during Mohammad Khatami presidency.{{cite book |title=Factional politics in post-Khomeini Iran |last=Moslem |first=Mehdi |page=325 |year=2002 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-2978-8 }} He also served as provincial governor of Yazd.

He was nominated as the energy minister by President Hassan Rouhani on 8 August 2017{{citation|url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/415767/|title=Hassan Rouhani's cabinet is complete. Here's the full list|date=8 August 2017|access-date=8 August 2017|work=Tehran Times}} but he was the only nominee who did not gain a vote of confidence from the parliament on 20 August 2017, with 133 yeas, 132 nays, 17 abstentions and 6 invalid votes.{{citation|url=http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/almost-ministers-proposed-rouhani-receive-vote-confidence/|title=Almost All Ministers Proposed by Rouhani Receive Vote of Confidence|date=20 August 2017|access-date=20 August 2017|work=Iran Front Page}}

Bitaraf is a founding member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front.{{citation|url=http://www.rferl.org/a/1342961.html|title=Iran Report|date=23 November 1998|access-date=25 March 2017|volume=1|number=2|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}