Prominent Khuzestani Politicians
Khuzestan has produced many prominent politicians. Iran's current Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Reza Eskandari, Mohsen Rezaee (secretary of Iran's powerful Expediency Discernment Council) and some parliamentary committee chairs have been from Khuzestan.
Ali Shamkhani, an Arab from Ahvaz, held Iran's sensitive top military post of Minister of Defense from 1997 to 2005, in President Khatami's government.
The Iraqi-born Ayatollah Mohsen Araki served as a Khuzestan representative in the Assembly of Experts, was the personal representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (the Supreme Leader of Iran) in London and headed the Islamic Centre of England until 2004.
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