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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (محمد باقر قالیباف) born September 1961 in Mashhad, is an Iranian General and the former head of Police Forces of Iran.
		He was born in September of 1961 in Mashhad and at age 22 he was the Commander of Nasr forces during Iran-Iraq war.In 1996 he got his M.A. in Political Geography and in 2001, he got his Ph.D. in the same field from Tarbiat Modarres University.
		As of February 2005, Ghalibaf is being considered to run in the Iranian presidential election of 2005 by the conservatives alliance because of his popularity with both wings.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Mohammad_Bagher_Ghalibaf (268 words)

	Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Information
		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (in Persian: محمد باقر قالیباف; born September 1961 in Mashhad) is the mayor of Tehran.
		Ghalibaf was a candidate in the Iranian presidential election of 2005, and is being considered to be supported by the some factions of the conservatives alliance because of his popularity with both wings.
		It has also been reported that Ghalibaf has claimed in a private party that he is the personal choice of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, for the presidential office, while Khamenei had previously mentioned that nobody knows his vote.
	www.bookrags.com /Mohammad_Bagher_Ghalibaf (380 words)

	Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf - WikIran
		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, also Qalibaf, (in Persian: محمد باقر قالیباف) is the mayor of Tehran.
		Ghalibaf was one of 8 candidates in the Iranian presidential elections of 2005.
		It has also been reported that Ghalibaf claimed in private circles that he was the personal choice of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, for the presidential office, while Khamenei had previously mentioned that nobody had his preferential vote.
	www.wikiran.org /w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Bagher_Ghalibaf (456 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (محمد باقر قالیباف) born September 1961 in Mashhad, is an Iranian General and the former head of Police Forces of Iran.
		He was born in September of 1961 in Mashhad and at age 22 he was the Commander of Nasr forces during Iran-Iraq war.In 1996 he got his M.A. in Political Geography and in 2001, he got his Ph.D. in the same field from Tarbiat Modarres University.
		As of February 2005, Ghalibaf is being considered to run in the Iranian presidential election of 2005 by the conservatives alliance because of his popularity with both wings.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Mohammad_Bagher_Ghalibaf (402 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - In Iran, all politics is local
		Mohammad Khatami's presidency, hold a degree of independence from the government.
		Yet, in their short history, they have played an important role in Iranian politics and are now seen as a springboard for political factions.
		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of Ahmadinejad's rivals for presidency from within the hardline camp, was elected by the council as mayor when Ahmadinejad took office as president.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/HL15Ak07.html (1113 words)

	Iranian police declare war on prostitution
		Iranian authorities are smashing up one prostitution ring after another in a determined effort to eliminate a phenomenon which is totally banned in the Islamic republic but is growing in line with its economic difficulties.
		The police "are ready to pick up all street women and prostitutes in less than 72 hours across the country," he added.
		Amiri said most prostitutes were young women who had run away from home, a phenomenon which he also attributed to economic factors.
	www.uri.edu /artsci/wms/hughes/war_on_prostitution (488 words)

	Pemilu Iran yang Sulit - Sabtu, 18 Juni 2005
		Masa jabatan Presiden Mohammad Khatami telah berakhir dan dia, sesuai amanat Konstitusi, tidak boleh lagi berpartisipasi dalam pemilu karena telah berkuasa selama dua periode (1997-2005).
		Ghalibaf mengklaim sendiri bahwa Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, pemimpin tertinggi Iran, akan memberi suara untuknya pada pemilu ini.
		Wakil konservatif yang punya pengaruh cukup "besar" adalah Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0506/18/opini/1823305.htm (906 words)

	Iranian presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mohammad Khatami, the previous President of Iran, had stepped down on August 2, 2005, after serving his maximum two consecutive four-year terms according to the Islamic Republic's constitution.
		Moeen had announced that he would choose Mohammad Reza Khatami as his First Vice President if he was elected, and had already chosen Elaheh Koulaee, a female representative of the sixth Islamic Assembly, as his spokeswoman.
		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, former Commander of Police (niroo-ye entezaami).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_presidential_election,_2005 (2994 words)

	Iran - dKosopedia
		Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was the last Shahinshah of Iran, ruling from 1941 until 1979 though was forced form the country breifly in 1953.
		Following Khomeini's death on June 3, 1989, the Assembly of Experts--an elected body of senior clerics--chose the outgoing president of the republic, Sayid Ali Khamenei, to be his successor as national religious leader in what proved to be a smooth transition.
		Rafsanjani was succeeded in 1997 by the moderate Mohammad Khatami.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Iran (3953 words)

	Iran Focus (Francais) - Iran (Général) - Iran - Les candidats à la présidentielle : Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
		Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf est un des cinq candidats, sur les huit de cette présidentielle, à être issu du commandement des gardiens de la révolution, les pasdarans.
		Ghalibaf, ancien commandant au sein des forces de l’Air des pasdarans, a délaissé son poste de chef de la police, les Forces de sécurité de l’Etat, pour se lancer dans la course présidentielle.
		Beaucoup de gens disent que sous Ghalibaf, les forces de sécurité ont arrêté et tabassé tous ceux qui faisaient campagne pour un changement durable dans la société.
	www.iranfocus.com /french/modules/news/print.php?storyid=1236 (520 words)

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		It remains to be seen just how the turnout will be at these Presidential elections, which end the Presidential tenure of the progressive Mohammad Khatami, who has ruled the country for two successive eras and can't stay on for a third term because the constitution does not allow this.
		One of the ten Guardian Council approved candidates, the hardline policeman Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a self styled 'Reza Khan' (the old Monarch) but then of the Hizbollah type, so much as admits that he's not even got a manifesto; "I do not intend to present any program for running in the elections.
		Despite the complaints by the Iranian population that elections are not free when the candidates are preselected by the ruling guard, there is a slight increase in the number of parties participating in the election from two to four this time around.
	www.contentclix.com /newsiran4 (1778 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ibadi, reviewed by The New ...
		In 1997 a reformist cleric, Mohammad Khatami, won the election in a landslide after the unelected Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei openly endorsed Khatami's conservative opponent.
		Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the ex-president and billionaire oligarch, and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Revolutionary Guard general and student-suppressing police commander, re-invented themselves as moderate and pragmatic strongmen willing to tolerate a modest cultural opening while safeguarding social and political stability.
		Ghalibaf assembled focus groups to branch out from there by capturing the mood of the middle class and urban youth, but Ahmadinejad's skillful use of populism proved him the better strategist.
	www.powells.com /review/2006_06_01 (5375 words)

	meepas -Analysis: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: More than missiles and manoeuvres
		Nicknamed the Shark for his hairless face and deadly ambush skills, Rafsanjani has still not recovered from his shock defeat to Ahmadinejad at the presidential elections, and is looking to settle scores with him.
		On the other hand, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Ahmadinejad's own Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) colleague who also competed against him in the presidential elections and lost is also trying to field his candidates.
		Ghalibaf, who is also the Mayor of Tehran, has been trying to get the IRGC vote by giving IRGC companies contracts in the Tehran municipality.
	www.meepas.com /Ahmadinejad_more_than_missiles.htm (1039 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Reformists hope for comeback in Iranâs local elections
		For example, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who served as a vice president in Khatamiâs reformist administration, wrote on his weblog that an electoral win was within the realm of possibility.
		In answer to what they consider to be the presidential teamâs dictatorial tendencies, rival conservative factions have prepared separate election lists, and have lashed out at the president in speeches and newspaper editorials.
		Ahmadinejad and Ghalibaf are said to be bitter rivals.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=17006 (981 words)

	SCG \| International Risk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The OSU was established by Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, one of Khomeini’s key collaborators, to organise Islamist students against the rapidly growing Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK).
		The Devotees publicly endorsed another candidate -- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf -- in the 17 June 2005 first round of the presidential election.
		Iran's dominant "Twelver" sect holds that Mohammed ibn Hasan (aka Mahdi) is the suggested righteous descendant of the Prophet Mohammad and is said to have gone into "occlusion" in the 9th century, at the age of five.
	www.scgonline.net /DI/LeaderBios/MahmoudAhmadinejad.html (1272 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		City councils, established in 1999 during the reformist Mohammad Khatami's presidency, hold a degree of independence from the government.
		If a coalition of Ahmadinejad supporters wins the seats of the council, he will be out as mayor and the political career of the former Revolutionary Guards air force chief commander will come to a very early end.
		With days to go for the polling, hardliners and conservatives have managed to narrow down their electoral lists to two, those supporting Ahmadinejad and those with Ghalibaf.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=35809 (1052 words)

	Are Iranians Deserting Hardline President? - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com
		Iranian TV reported that news, too, and when Ahmadinejad complained about the story, the network's director (a former ally) replied: "We just tell the truth." The legislature has stopped rubber-stamping the 50-year-old president's decisions, and the latest local elections cost him all but two of his allies on Tehran's 15-seat city council.
		But where Ahmadinejad is confrontational and "showboaty," Ghalibaf is a pragmatist with a reputation for getting things done.
		The son of a truck driver, Ghalibaf became a Revolutionary Guards commander at 22.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/16409846/site/newsweek (525 words)

	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad information - Search.com
		Ahmadinejad is known to have quarreled with president Mohammad Khatami, who then barred him from attending meetings of the Board of Ministers, a privilege usually extended to mayors of Tehran.
		His resignation was accepted on June 28, 2005, and in September 2005 the Tehran City Council elected Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf with 8 out of 15 votes as the 12th mayor of Tehran.
		Temporary supervisors for two of the four ministries without new ministers were appointed by Ahmadinejad on August 27, Mohammad Nazemi Ardakani for the Ministry of Cooperatives and Davoud Madadi for the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security.
	webshots.search.com /reference/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad (3711 words)

	Tehran Bus Workers' Protest
		Negotiations with the Mayor, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, produced no results; all the demands remained unmet.
		Ghalibaf asked for 15 days by which time to respond.
		On 7th January the bus workers held a day of action by putting up a poster on their screens with the words ‘Mansoor Ossanlou must be released’ and drove their buses with their lights on all day.
	www.maryamnamazie.com /campaigns/tehran_bus_workers.html (2447 words)

	AIC Update
		Outgoing reformist President Mohammad Khatami will leave office amid uncertainty over whether it was the man or the office that was not strong enough to enact the promised reforms.
		Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, former Chief of Police and member of the Revolutionary Guards, has lobbied hard for the youth vote in a country where two- thirds of the people are under thirty years old.
		But even if he wins, Moin is likely to face the opposition of powerful hardliners due to his stance on nuclear issues, the release of political prisoners, and the powers of the Supreme Leader.
	www.american-iranian.org /pubs/aicupdate/06162005.html (838 words)

	The Modern Magazine for Persian Celebrations, Cuisine, Culture & Community
		Iran's outgoing reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, barred Mr Ahmadinejad from attending cabinet meetings, a privilege normally accorded to mayors of the capital.
		As the Mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad also became the manager in charge of the daily newspaper Hamshahri, which led to dismissing Mohammad Atrianfar as the editor and replacing him with Alireza Sheikh-Attar, who was subsequently fired on June 13, 2005, a few days before the presidential elections, because of not supporting Ahmadinejad for the post.
		Ahmadinejad is known to have quarreled with the reformist President Mohammad Khatami, who then barred him from attending meetings of the Board of Ministers, a privilege usually extended to mayors of Tehran.
	persianmirror.com /community/2005/opinion/MahmoudAhmadinejad.cfm (1466 words)

	globalinfo.org - Dec 12, IRAN (#47746)
		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of Ahmadinejad's rivals for the presidency from within the hard-line camp, was elected by the council as mayor when Ahmadinejad took office as president.
		With days to go before the election, hard-liners and conservatives have managed to narrow down their electoral lists to two, those supporting Ahmadinejad and those with Ghalibaf.
		Defeated by hard-liners and conservatives for their failure to unite in three consecutive elections for city councils, parliament and presidency, reformists claim they have learned their lesson.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=47746 (1095 words)

	Mashhad Summary
		Mohammad Taghi Bahar, famous nationalist politician and scholar
		Mohammad AliDinMohammadi, TV English Newscaster who never left Iran to acquire his native-like American English.
		In recent years, the event to have had the largest impact on Mashhad was the bombing of the Imam Reza shrine on June 20, 1994, killing twenty six and wounding many more.
	www.bookrags.com /Mashhad (1625 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The ruling clerics see the forthcoming vote as a chance to consolidate their grip on power, and a number of close Khamenei loyalists are expected to run.
		Among them are the former commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei; the top police commander Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; the former head of state radio and television Ali Larijani; former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati; and lawmaker Ahmad Tavakoli.
		Their strongest rival will not be a reformer - but Rafsanjani, a savvy pragmatist who has frequently gone back and forth between the hardline and more moderate camps.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/BAAB9087-0ACC-47E8-8961-EAEAB08B379C.htm (463 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		Even the reformist Mohammad Khatami had managed to get total approval for his cabinet from a parliament opposed to reforms.
		After he became president, it was Ahmadinejad's turn to refuse to invite Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, his hardline rival in the presidential elections who had been elected as mayor, to cabinet meetings.
		The new mayor is determined to keep his post, however, and Ahmadinejad allegedly refuses to enter a coalition with the rest of the hardline and conservative camp if Ghalibaf, now inclined toward moderate reformists, remains mayor.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/HL01Ak04.html (614 words)

	Local elections test for Iran president - Boston.com
		It will be only the third time that Iranians vote for local councils, a reform introduced by former reformist President Mohammad Khatami in 1999.
		Many of the Tehran races pit Ahmadinejad supporters against backers of fellow conservative Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, an Iraq-Iran war veteran and commercial airline pilot.
		One of the pro-Ahmadinejad candidates is the president's sister, Parvin Ahmadinejad, who has used slogans including "Justice with No Exception" as part of her campaign.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/12/14/local_elections_test_for_iran_president?mode=PF (678 words)

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