Political Career
After the Iranian revolution of 1979, Najafi returned to Iran, immediately beginning his political career. Starting as a consultant to Mostafa Chamran and later the president of Isfahan University of Technology (1980–1981), Najafi served as the Minister of Culture and Higher Education from 1981 to 1984 in the cabinet of then Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi. In 1988, he became the Minister of Education under President Hashemi Rafsanjani and served until 1997. In 1997, he was appointed Vice President and Head of the Planning and Budget Organization by President Mohammad Khatami, but after a merge of his organization with another and a renaming to Organization for Management and Planning, he was succeeded by Mohammad Reza Aref. Najafi was an advisor to President Khatami and the senior advisor to the Minister of Industries from 2001 to 2005.
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