Mohammad Tavasoli
{{Short description|Iranian politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2011}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mohammad Tavasoli
| image = Mohammad Tavasoli.JPG
| caption = Tavasoli in 2012
| birth_name = Mohammad Tavasoli-Hojjati{{cite book|first1=Mehrzad|last1=Boroujerdi|first2=Kourosh|last2=Rahimkhani|title=Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=9780815654322|date=2018|pages=771–72}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|05|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tehran, Iran{{cite book |author=Houchang E. Chehabi|title=Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini|publisher=I.B.Tauris|pages=87|date=1990|isbn=1850431981}}
| death_date =
| death_place =
| order2 = Mayor of Tehran
| term_start2 = 26 February 1979
| term_end2 = 5 January 1981
| predecessor2 = Javad Shahrestani
| successor2 = Reza Zavare'i {{small|(Acting)}}
| alma_mater = University of Tehran
| party = Freedom Movement of Iran
| nationality = Iranian
| relatives = Ebrahim Yazdi {{small|(brother-in-law)}}
}}
Mohammad Tavasoli ({{langx|fa|محمد توسلی}}; born 15 May 1938) is an Iranian democracy activist and politician. He is the Secretary-General and also the director of the political office of the Freedom Movement party.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2009/jun/18/iran-unrest|title=Iran protests: live|date=18 June 2009|work=The Guardian|author=Daniel Nasaw and Matthew Weaver|accessdate=12 June 2011}}
Early life
Tavasoli studied at Tehran University in 1956 and was one of the members of Anjoman-e Eslami. He joined the freedom movement soon after it was established. He went to Germany in 1962 to study transportation and traffic. After visiting the United States in 1967, he was returned to Iran and banned from traveling. He was arrested in 1971 because he helped a member of MEK and was jailed for one year. Before the Iranian Revolution, he was one of the staff responsible for the advertising campaign rally to welcome Ruhollah Khomeini back to Iran after 15 years.
Political career
After the Iranian Revolution, he was elected as Mayor of Tehran. He was mayor from February 1979 until February 1980. He was jailed with Hashem Sabbaghian in 1983 but was released seven months later. He was jailed again in March 1988 and after the 2009-2010 Iranian election protests after participating in a rally in June 2009.{{cite web|url=http://zamaaneh.com/special/2009/07/post_829.html|date=28 July 2009|script-title=ar:بازداشت توسلی، انتقام از آزادی است|trans-title=Tavassoli custody, revenge of freedom|language=Arabic|accessdate=12 June 2011|publisher=Zamaaneh.com}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Head of Political Bureau of Freedom Movement of Iran|years=1995–present}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Head of Political Bureau of Freedom Movement of Iran|years=1978}}
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Category:Islamic democracy activists
Category:University of Tehran alumni
Category:Iranian revolutionaries
Category:People of the Iranian revolution
Category:National Front (Iran) student activists
Category:Members of the Association for Defense of Freedom and the Sovereignty of the Iranian Nation
Category:Secretaries-general of the Freedom Movement of Iran
Category:Heads of political office of the Freedom Movement of Iran