Mohammad-Reza Bahonar

First Deputy Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (2004–2016); brother of PM Mohammad-Javad Bahonar

Mohammad-Reza Bahonar is an Iranian conservative politician and the brother of assassinated Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. He served as First Deputy Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2004 to 2016, elected with 188 out of 259 votes. A prominent principlist parliamentarian during the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad era, he was also the uncle of Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi, a senior aide to Ahmadinejad. Bahonar was a member of the Society of Islamic Revolution's Devotees (Isargaran) and a fixture of conservative parliamentary politics for over two decades.

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