Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard

Who is Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard?

Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard is the former conservative first deputy speaker of the Parliament of Iran. He was representative from Qazvin from 2004 to 2012 and is from Tehran since 2012.

He became second deputy speaker on 6 June 2004 with 173 votes out of 259. The other running candidate for the post of deputy speaker was Mohammad-Reza Bahonar, a representative from Kerman who became first deputy speaker with 188 votes. He was in office until 26 May 2010 when he became first deputy speaker with 188 of 265 votes. He was resigned from office on 25 May 2011.