Mohammad-Reza Aref

Mohammad Reza Aref محمدرضا عارف
Mohammad-Reza Aref (right)
First Vice President of Iran
In office 11 September 2001 – 11 September 2005
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Hassan Habibi
Succeeded by	Parviz Davoodi
Minister of Technology
In office 19 August 1997 – 20 August 2001
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Mohammad Gharazi
Succeeded by	Ahmad Motamedi
Personal details
Born	15 September 1951 (1951-09-15) (age 60) Yazd, Iran
Political party	Islamic Iran Participation Front
Spouse(s)	Fatemeh Aref
Profession	Electrical engineer
Religion	Shia Islam

Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف , PhD, born 1951 in Yazd) is an Iranian academic, electrical engineer and politician and a professor at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. From 2001 to 2005, he was the Vice President of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami. He was succeeded by Parviz Dawoodi.

Aref was a chancellor of the University of Tehran (1994–1997). From August 28, 1997 to June, 2000, he was the Minister of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone (PTT), a post that was later renamed to Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

He received the Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Tehran University, and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and communication engineering from Stanford University in 1975, 1976 and 1980, respectively. His PhD dissertation was on the information theory of networks, supervised by Prof. Thomas M. Cover. Until 1994, he was a faculty member of Isfahan University of Technology. As of 2004^[update], he serves as a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology. He offers courses on cryptography and coding theory.

External links

• (Persian) Aref's information page at Iranian Presidency website
• Aref's CV at Iranian Presidency website
• Article: ROGUE NATIONS SYRIA AND IRAN UNITE-US PACT. Evening Standard - February 17, 1998

Political offices
Preceded by Mohammad Gharazi	Minister of Information and Communications Technology 1997-2001	Succeeded by Ahmad Motamedi
Preceded by Hassan Habibi	First Vice President of Iran 2001-2005	Succeeded by Parviz Davoodi

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Name	Aref, Mohammad Reza
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Date of birth	15 September 1951
Place of birth	Yazd, Iran
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