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Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei

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Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (Persian: اسفندیار رحیم‌مشایی; born 16 November 1960) is an Iranian conservative 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 different languages on Wikipedia. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is the 16,891st most popular politician, the 443rd most popular biography from Iran and the 183rd most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 16,891 out of 19,576. Before him are Patricia Scotland, Jay Inslee, Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed, Einars Repše, Penaia Ganilau, and Choi Yo-sam. After him are Jorge Fernández Díaz, Andrej Danko, Anlamani, Amado Boudou, Josiah Bartlett, and Andrew Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 463. Before him are Elena Kagan, Tomas Jonsson, Paul Harrington, Paulina García, Alison Bechdel, and Jozef Pribilinec. After him are David L. Rabinowitz, Al Joyner, Tyrell Biggs, Steven Lindsey, Bjørg Eva Jensen, and Aleksandr Uvarov.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 443 out of 631. Before him are Laleh (1982), Hassan Rowshan (1955), Matt Ghaffari (1961), Javad Nekounam (1980), Tami Stronach (1972), and Alireza Jahanbakhsh (1993). After him are Khodadad Azizi (1971), Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Shohreh (1959), Cumrun Vafa (1960), and Quli Qutb Shah (1470).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 183. Before him are Yusuf Adil Shah (1459), Harold Nicolson (1886), Manouchehr Mottaki (1953), Eshaq Jahangiri (1958), Mohammad Reza Aref (1951), and Masoumeh Ebtekar (1960). After him are Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Quli Qutb Shah (1470), Parviz Davoodi (1952), Hossein Rezazadeh (1978), Fatemeh Rahbar (1964), and Saeed Jalili (1965).

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