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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Iranian architect and conservative politician}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name = Mehdi Chamran <br />
| image = Mehdi Chamran 1399033117165690220628924.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|9|9|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Tehran]], [[Pahlavi Iran|Imperial State of Iran]]<br />
| order = [[Islamic City Council of Tehran|Chairman of the City Council of Tehran]]<br />
| term_start = 5 August 2021<br />
| term_end = <br />
| deputy = [[Parviz Sorouri]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Mohsen Hashemi]] <br />
| successor = <br />
| term_start1 = 3 September 2014<br />
| term_end1 = 22 August 2017<br />
| deputy1 = [[Morteza Talaie]]<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Ahmad Masjed-Jamei]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Mohsen Hashemi]] <br />
| term_start2 = 29 April 2003<br />
| term_end2 = 3 September 2013<br />
| deputy2 = [[Hassan Bayadi]]<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Mohammad Atrianfar]]<br />
| successor2 = [[Ahmad Masjed-Jamei]]<br />
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| order3 = [[Islamic City Council of Tehran|Member of the City Council of Tehran]]<br />
| term_start3 = 5 August 2021<br />
| term_end3 = <br />
| term_start4 = 29 April 2003<br />
| term_end4 = 22 August 2017<br />
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| party = [[Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces]]<br />[[Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Tehran]]<br />
| occupation = <br />
| spouse = <br />
| website = <br />
| signature = Mehdi Chamran signature.svg<br />
| allegiance = {{flag|Iran}}<br />
| branch = [[Irregular Warfare Headquarters]]<br />
| battles = [[Iran–Iraq War]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Mehdi Chamran Save'ei''' ({{langx|fa|مهدی چمران}}; born 9 September 1941) is an Iranian architect and [[Iranian Principlists|conservative]] politician who currently holds office as the chairman of the [[Islamic City Council of Tehran|City Council of Tehran]].<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Chamran is the brother of [[Mostafa Chamran]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Shiʻite Lebanon: transnational religion and the making of national identities|last=Shaery-Eisenlohr|first=Roschanack|page=171|year=2008|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=978-0-231-14426-1}}</ref> They were both members of the "Red [[Shiism]]", a radical group that was founded by Mostafa in the US in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|last=Barsky|first=Yehudit|title=Hizballah|url=http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/Hizballah_052003.pdf|work=The American Jewish Committee|accessdate=5 August 2013|format=Terrorism Briefing|date=May 2003|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184824/http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/Hizballah_052003.pdf|archivedate=29 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Chamran served as the head of Iran's external intelligence. He was among those who contributed to the Iran's nuclear development program from the start.<ref>{{cite news|last=Jesper|first=William F.|title=No state sponsors, no terror|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/No+state+sponsors,+no+terror%3A+for+30+years+Iran+has+been+the+leading...-a0207112330|accessdate=5 August 2013|newspaper=The New American|date=31 August 2009}}</ref> He was the chairman of the [[City Council of Tehran]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Imam Musa Sadr Was Imam Khomeini's Right Hand in Arab Countries|url=http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=230274|work=[[AhlulBayt News Agency]]|date=8 March 2011|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref> from 2003 to 2013. He received the most votes from the Tehrani electorate in three of the elections he was elected in, in [[2003 Iranian City and Village Councils elections|2003]], [[2006 Iranian City and Village Councils elections|2006]] and [[2013 Iranian local elections|2013]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}<br />
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A major supporter of [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] during his mayorship,<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Iran: economy, society, politics |last=Gheissari|first=Ali|page=284|year=2009|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-537849-8}}</ref> Chamran turned towards [[Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf]] and his supporters during [[2006 Iranian City and Village Councils elections|the 2006 elections]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Ahmadinejad: the secret history of Iran's radical leader|last=Naji|first=Kasra|page=62|year=2008|publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]]|isbn=978-1-84511-636-1}}</ref> which resulted in a three-way split of [[List of members of City Council of Tehran#Third Council members, 2007-2011|the third Tehran council]] between the two conservative factions and [[Iranian reform movement|reformist candidates]]. Comparatively, the second council only consisted of conservative members and the first council mostly of reformist members.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}<br />
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