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Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei

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Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (Persian: اسفندیار رحیم‌مشایی; born 16 November 1960) is an Iranian principlist politician and former intelligence officer. As a senior Cabinet member in the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he served as Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2013, and served as the fourth first vice president of Iran for one week in 2009 until his resignation was ordered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A close ally of President Ahmadinejad, Mashaei was viewed by many Iranian clerics as an anti-establishment activist and secular-oriented nationalist. He has been criticized by religious conservatives for alleged "deviant tendencies," such as elevating Iranian heritage and nationalism above Islam as well as for statements he has made criticizing the Assembly of Experts and the theocratic doctrine of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists, and advocating for the clergy to remove themselves from the political establishment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is the 17,254th most popular politician (down from 16,881st in 2024), the 448th most popular biography from Iran (down from 442nd in 2019) and the 189th most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 17,254 out of 19,576. Before him are Frits Goedgedrag, Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, Patricia Roberts Harris, Erkki Liikanen, Mamuka Bakhtadze, and Jim Webb. After him are Malcolm MacDonald, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, Hiroshi Abe, Jose W. Diokno, Aleksandras Abišala, and Richard Mulcahy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 531. Before him are Mark Schultz, Mirko Bašić, Takashi Sekizuka, Erin Moran, Perrine Pelen, and Renato Russo. After him are David Miscavige, Yasushi Yoshida, Inger Helene Nybråten, Mikel Herzog, Kurt Sutter, and Igor Nikolayev.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 448 out of 631. Before him are Aylar Lie (1984), Hadi Choopan (1987), Parviz Parastui (1955), Masih Alinejad (1976), Parviz Davoodi (1952), and Afshin Ghotbi (1964). After him are Iraj Danaeifard (1951), Mehdi Mahdavikia (1977), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Shahab Hosseini (1974), Mostafa Pourmohammadi (1960), and Razi Mousavi (1962).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 189. Before him are Manouchehr Mottaki (1953), Harold Nicolson (1886), Masoumeh Ebtekar (1960), Fatemeh Rahbar (1964), Alireza Akbari (1961), and Parviz Davoodi (1952). After him are Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani (1963), Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Hossein Rezazadeh (1978), Abdolmalek Rigi (1979), Omid Nouripour (1975), and Valerie Jarrett (1956).

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