Mostafa Katiraei

{{Short description|Iranian engineer and politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Mostafa Katiraei

| image = File:Mostafa_Katiraei.jpg

| office1 = Minister of Housing

| term_start1 = 13 February 1979

| term_end1 = 6 November 1979

| primeminister1= Mehdi Bazargan

| predecessor1 = Javad Khadem

| successor1 = Mohsen Yahyavi

| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|12|31|df=y}}

| birth_place = Malayer, Iran

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|2|3|1928|12|31|df=y}}

| death_place = Tehran, Iran

| nationality = Iranian

| alma_mater = University of Tehran

| party = Freedom Movement of Iran (affiliate non-member)

| occupation = Engineer

}}

Mostafa Katiraei ({{langx|fa|مصطفی کتیرایی}}) (31 December 1928https://www.ettelaat.com/mobile/archives/267085?device=phone{{cite web | url=https://historydocuments.org/sanad/?page=show_document&id=i8iya5c6n34kc | title=مرکز بررسی اسناد تاریخی }} – 3 February 2016) was an Iranian engineer and politician who served in the interim government of Bazargan as the minister of housing.{{cite thesis|last=Ramsey|first=Christopher|date=2016|title=The Failure of Mehdi Bazargan: How the Revolutionary Council, the Clerical Oligarchy, and United States Foreign Policy Undermined the Liberal Democracy of Iran in 1979|type=M.A. thesis|publisher=The George Washington University|url=https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1815028569.html?FMT=ABS|page=19|via=ProQuest|isbn=9781369050424|number=10149946|others=Advisor: Atkin, Muriel}} He was also a member of the Council of the Islamic Revolution.{{cite thesis |last=Mohammadighalehtaki|first=Ariabarzan|date=2012|title=Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat)|type=Ph.D. thesis|publisher=Durham University|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3507/|page=93}}

Katiraei was a leading member of the Islamic Association of Engineers{{cite book|last1=Eshkevari|first1=Hasan Yousefi|last2=Mir-Hosseini|first2=Ziba|last3=Tapper|first3=Richard|title=Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform|url=https://archive.org/details/islamdemocracyir00mirh|url-access=limited|date=2006|publisher=I.B.Tauris|location=London and New York|isbn=978-1-84511-133-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/islamdemocracyir00mirh/page/n82 72]}} and considered sympathetic towards the Freedom Movement of 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=279|date=1990|isbn=1850431981}}