Mostafa Mir-Salim

He was a presidential candidate at the 2017 election which placed third with receiving 1.16% of the votes.

Mostafa Mir-Salim studied at University of Poitiers, École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique and IFP School. The recorded working language is Persian and French. Employment is recorded with Amirkabir University of Technology. Positions recorded include Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

• Honorific Prefix — Seyyed • Name — Mostafa Mir-Salim • Honorific Suffix — Agha • Office1 — Member of the Parliament of Iran • Constituency1 — Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis • Term Start1 — 27 May 2020 • Term End1 — 26 May 2024 • Majority1 — 892,318 (48.45%) • Office2 — Member of Expediency Discernment Council • Term Start2 — 17 March 1997 • Appointer2 — Ali Khamenei • 1blankname2 — Chairman • 1namedata2 — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani • Office3 — Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance • Term Start3 — 22 February 1994 • Term End3 — 20 August 1997 • President3 — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani • Predecessor3 — Ali Larijani • Successor3 — Ata'ollah Mohajerani • Office4 — Advisor to the President of Iran for Research • President4 — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani • Term Start4 — August 1989 • Term End4 — February 1994 • Successor4 — Hassan Ghafourifard • Office5 — Top Advisor to the President of Iran • President5 — Ali Khamenei • Term Start5 — August 1982 • Term End5 — August 1989 • Predecessor5 — Office established • Successor5 — Mir-Hossein Mousavi • Office6 — Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran • President6 — Ali Khamenei • Term Start6 — August 1982 • Term End6 — 5 September 1989 • Predecessor6 — Office established • Successor6 — Hassan Habibi • Birth Name — Seyed Mostafa Agha Mir-Salim • Born — 10 June 1947 • Birthplace — Tehran, Imperial State of Iran • Party — Islamic Coalition Party • Other Party — Islamic Republican Party (1980–87) • Children — 3, 2 daughters and 1 son • Alma Mater — University of Poitiers École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique IFP School • Allegiance — Iran • Service Years — 1980–1981 • Commands — Shahrbani

He obtained B.Sc. in Mechanics from Universite de Poitiers in 1969, M.Sc. in Mechanics from École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique and M.Sc. Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics from Attestation d`Eludes Approfondies, Universite de Poitiers both in 1971 and M.Sc. in Internal Combustion Engines from École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs in 1972. He worked as an intern in Alsace Mechanical Industries until 1976, when he returned to Iran. He worked at Tehran Metro as the operational director from 1976 to 1979.

Mir-Salim served as the national police chief following the Iranian Revolution. He was proposed by then president Abulhassan Banisadr in July 1980 as a candidate for the prime minister as a compromise candidate acceptable to both Banisadr and the Majlis dominated by the Islamic Republican Party. However, Banisadr was pressured to accept Mohammad-Ali Rajai instead. From 1981 to 1989, Mir-Salim was the advisor to then president Ayatollah Khamenei. In the beginning of 1989, on the occasion of the death and funeral of Hirohito, the 124th Emperor of Japan who had ruled for over 60 years until he died on January 7, Mir-Salim and Hossein Saffar Harandi, a Member of Parliament and the Chairman of Parliament Committee on Agriculture, went to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to attend the Rites of Imperial Funeral on February 24 with Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiary in Japan, and his wife. Mir-Salim was appointed Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance in 1994. His tenure was characterized by a strongly conservative Islamist direction, aiming to stave off the "cultural onslaught" of Western culture and promote pious Islamic culture in its place, including through the use of repressive measures. The Ministry under his direction was particularly known for closing a number of reformist newspapers. He was later appointed to the Expediency Discernment Council. He is assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran.

• Year — Election — Votes — % — Rank — Notes • 2017 — President — 478,267 — 1.16% — 3rd • 2020 — Parliament — 892,318 — 48.45% — 2nd

According to Iranian Diplomacy, Mirsalim is married to an Iranian woman. He is fond of swimming and usually wears shenandoah beard, collarless tuxedos and dark calottes that serve as his signature look.