Mostafa Mir-Salim

Mostafa Mir-Salim, born in 1947, is an Iranian engineer and conservative politician who sits on the Expediency Discernment Council and was a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2020 to 2024. He obtained a B.Sc. in mechanics from the University of Poitiers in 1969, master's degrees in mechanics and in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics in 1971, and a master's in internal combustion engines from the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Petrole et des Moteurs in 1972. He worked as an intern at Alsace Mechanical Industries until 1976, then as operational director of the Tehran Metro from 1976 to 1979. After the Iranian Revolution he served as national police chief, was an adviser to the president from 1981 to 1989, and was Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance from 1994. He stood as a presidential candidate in 2017 and is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran.