{{short description|Iranian politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Isa Kalantari | native_name = {{No bold|{{Script/Nastaliq|عیسی کلانتری}}}} | native_name_lang = fa | image = Isa Kalantari.jpg | caption = | order1 = Vice President of Iran<br>Head of Department of Environment | term_start1 = 13 August 2017 | term_end1 = 3 October 2021 | president1 = Hassan Rouhani | predecessor1 = Masoumeh Ebtekar | successor1 = Ali Salajegheh | office2 = Minister of Agriculture | term_start2 = 20 September 1988 | term_end2 = 14 January 2001 | president2 = Ali Khamenei<br>Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani<br>Mohammad Khatami | prime_minister2 = Mir Hossein Mousavi | predecessor2 = Abbas Ali Zali | successor2 = Mahmoud Hojjati (Merged in Jihad of Construction Ministry) | birth_name = Isa Kalantari | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}} | birth_place = Marand, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran | death_date = | death_place = | children = | occupation = Politician | profession = Agricultural engineer | alma_mater = Urmia University<br>University of Nebraska–Lincoln<br>Iowa State University | party = Executives of Construction Party | allegiance = | branch = | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = | signature = Isa Kalantari Signature.svg }} '''Isa Kalantari''' ({{langx|fa|عیسی کلانتری}}, born 1952 in Marand, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian politician and former vice president, former head of Urmia Lake Restoration Program, and the former head of Department of Environment, serving from 2017 to 2021. He served as minister of agriculture in last year of Khamenei's presidency, in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and also in first term of President Khatami.
Isa Kalantari lost his elder brother, Mousa, in Hafte Tir bombing on 28 June 1981.
He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and PhD in agricultural physiology from Iowa State University.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kalantari|first=Issa|date=1981-01-01|title=Stimulation of corn seedling growth by allelochemicals from soybean residue|url=https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/7437|journal=Retrospective Theses and Dissertations|doi=10.31274/rtd-180813-5619|doi-access=free}}</ref> He was a member of the Center for Strategic Research in the Expediency Discernment Council.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csr.ir/departments.aspx?lng=fa&abtid=09&&depid=64&&semid=300 |title=مرکز تحقیقات استراتژیک - کادرعلمی - دکتر عیسی کلانتری |publisher=Csr.ir |access-date=2014-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020024634/http://www.csr.ir/departments.aspx?lng=fa&abtid=09&&depid=64&&semid=300 |archive-date=2013-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2001, he founded Iran's House of Farmers and has been serving as its director since then.
==See also== * Mosa Kalantari * Hamidreza Moghaddamfar
==References== {{reflist}} {{Khatami cabinet}} {{Rouhani cabinet}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalantari, Isa}} Category:Government ministers of Iran Category:People from Marand Category:Iranian reformists Category:Urmia University alumni Category:Iowa State University alumni Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:Iranian chief executives Category:Executives of Construction Party politicians Category:Heads of Department of Environment (Iran) Category:University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni