Tehran's ever-ambitious mayor
Tehran's mayor, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, is making plans for his supporters to gain seats in the February parliamentary elections.
TEHRAN, Iran — Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has formed a political party in the hopes of having his supporters win seats in the February parliamentary elections.
Ghalibaf started his career in fatigues during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, when he led a division. After the war, he gradually took steps toward political power. In 1997, the year Reformist Mohammad Khatami was elected president, he was appointed as head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force.
