Mohsen Mehralizadeh [SEP] country of citizenship
Mohsen Mehralizadeh
Mohsen Mehralizadeh (; born September 30, 1956) is an Iranian reformist politician and former Governor of Isfahan Province.
He was a Vice President of Iran and the head of the National Sports Organization of Iran under President Khatami. He is an ethnic Azerbaijani.
Mehralizadeh was the governor of the Khorasan in Khatami's first term of presidency.
Presidential candidature.
During the campaign for 2005 presidential election, Mehralizadeh announced his ambition for presidency on December 29 and said he was the candidate for the younger generation
candidates from the both wings, specially the reformist candidates Mostafa Moeen and Mohsen Mehralizadeh. This raised many objections among the general public and the political parties, including student protests in the Tehran University, among other universities. This, and the objections of some of the approved candidates, led to a letter from Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, to the Guardian Council asking for the approval of Moeen and Mehralizadeh (this had apparently been because of a request by Haddad-Adel, the conservative Speaker of the Parliament). It