Morteza Nabavi

Morteza Nabavi was born in 1947 in Qazvin. He was politically active during the Shah's regime and was imprisoned for a period. He was a member of the Supreme Council for the Resolution of Disputes between Powers, head of the Research Center for Strategic Development Studies, editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Development Strategy. From 1981 to 1985 he served as the Minister of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone in the Cabinet of Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, in the 1981 Interim Government led by Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani and in the first government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi.^[1][2] He also served as a deputy in the fourth and fifth convocations of the Islamic Consultative Assembly as a representative of the Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis constituency. Following the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests he claimed that the Ahmadinejad government used the crackdown to sideline conservative elements within the regime.^[3] From March 14, 2012 he serves as a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.^{[citation needed]}