Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi

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| name = Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi

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| office1 = Vice Minister of Interior for Political Affairs

| term_start1 = 27 September 2006{{cite web |url=http://alef.ir/vdccamq482bq0.la2.html?847 |title=هاشمی ثمره معاون سیاسی وزیر کشور شد |publisher=Alef |date=26 September 2006 |access-date=27 August 2017 |language=Persian}}

| term_end1 = 25 August 2007{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/story/2007/08/printable/070826_ka-election.shtml |title=فرمانده سابق بسیج، معاون سیاسی وزیر کشور شد |publisher=BBC Persian |date=26 August 2007 |access-date=27 August 2017 |language=Persian}}

| president1 = Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

| minister1 = Mostafa Pourmohammadi

| predecessor1 = Ali Jannati

| successor1 = Alireza Afshar

| office2 = Senior Aide to the President of Iran

| term_start2 = 17 June 2009

| term_end2 = 3 August 2013

| president2 = Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

| predecessor2 = position created

| successor2 = Hesamodin Ashna

| office3 = Top Advisor to the President of Iran

| president3 = Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

| predecessor3 = Mir-Hossein Mousavi

| term_start3 = August 2005

| term_end3 = 14 April 2009{{cite web |url=http://alef.ir/vdcbfzba.rhbfspiuur.html?43753 |title=مجتبی ثمره هاشمی استعفا داد |publisher=Alef |date=15 April 2009 |access-date=27 August 2017 |language=Persian}}

| term_start4 = 2009

| term_end4 = 3 August 2013

| successor4 = Akbar Torkan

| office5 = 33rd Mayor of Sanandaj

| term_start5 = 4 February 1988

| term_end5 = 21 January 1989{{cite web |url=http://www.e-sanandaj.ir/HomePage.aspx?TabID=4622&Site=DouranPortal&Lang=%27fa-IR%27 |title=شهرداران اسبق |publisher=Sanandaj Municipality |date=1 June 2009 |access-date=27 August 2017 |language=Persian}}

| minister5 = Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur

| 1blankname5 = Governor-general

| 1namedata5 = Alireza Tabesh

| predecessor5 = Morteza Zarrin-gol

| successor5 = Mousa Moradiani

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| birth_place = Kerman, Iran

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| nationality = Iranian

| party = Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran

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| spouse = Ghasri Zarghami Sabet[http://www.baharnewspaper.com/News/92/03/07/12004.html Off to New York]

| children = 3

| relatives = Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (uncle)
Mohammad-Reza Bahonar (uncle){{Cite web |url=http://www.nasimeharaz.com/viewer.php?id=735 |title=Right's new leaders |access-date=2016-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623185548/http://nasimeharaz.com/viewer.php?id=735 |archive-date=2011-06-23 |url-status=usurped }}

| alma_mater = Iran University of Science and Technology[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/06/iran-ahmadinejad-mahdi Ahmadinejad's messianic connections]

| profession = Politician

| cabinet = 9th Government{{-}}10th Government

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Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi is an Iranian politician. He was a "senior adviser" to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and deputy interior minister for political affairs.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iran-daily.com/1386/2899/html/national.htm |title=Media, Parties Should Regulate Electoral Scene |accessdate=8 January 2009 |publisher=Iran Daily - National |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511154820/http://www.iran-daily.com/1386/2899/html/national.htm |archivedate=May 11, 2008 }} He is said to have "strong ties to the Revolutionary Guard Corps and to the intelligence services" and to be "a constant presence at the president's side, in every cabinet meeting and during midday prayers at the office..." and acting "more as a cross between Iran's Karl Rove and a [American] president's chief of staff."Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ : The Paradox of Modern Iran, by Hooman Majd, Doubleday, 2008, p.45-6

He studied with Ahmadinejad at the Iran University of Science and Technology in the late 1970s, and like Ahmadinejad, he is a dedicated student of "ultra-conservative" cleric Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi. Later on, thanks to their friendship, Ahmadinejad received his first official job, as the mayor of Maku and Khoy, near the border with Turkey. Reportedly, Samareh's connections with the Basij enabled Ahmadinejad to establish relations with that group and with the Revolutionary Guard Corps.[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/06/iran-ahmadinejad-mahdi Ahmadinejad's messianic connections], Meir Javedanfar, The Guardian, 6 May 2009, accessed 15-July-2009

Prior to his role as adviser he was sponsored by Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi for, and quickly appointed to, a critical job, director of placements, at the Foreign Ministry of Iran, in the early 1990s. In September 2006 he flew to Paris to deliver a private message to President Jacques Chirac from president Ahmadinejad. Very shortly afterward, he was appointed deputy interior minister for political affairs, (though he continued his full-time duties as senior adviser). In October 2006 he was "appointed head of the election commission, supervisor of the poll for the Assembly of Experts." Despite his close association with Mesbah-Yazdi, that cleric did not do well in the election and only came in sixth-place finish in the Tehran municipality, "barely squeezing into his seat in the Assembly". Samareh Hashemi resigning from the election commission a "few months later in the summer of 2007."Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, (2008), p.49–50