{{Short description|Iranian engineer and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Seyyed | name = Mostafa Mir-Salim | honorific_suffix = Agha | native_name = {{No bold|مصطفی میرسلیم}} | native_name_lang = fa | image = Mostafa Mir-Salim - Expediency Discernment Council - Parliament of Iran - (7).jpg | office1 = Member of the Parliament of Iran | constituency1 = Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis | term_start1 = 27 May 2020 | term_end1 = 26 May 2024 | majority1 = 892,318 (48.45%) | office2 = Member of Expediency Discernment Council | term_start2 = 17 March 1997 | term_end2 = | appointer2 = Ali Khamenei | 1blankname2 = Chairman | 1namedata2 = Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani<br />Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting)<br />Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi<br />Sadeq Larijani | office3 = Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance | term_start3 = 22 February 1994 | term_end3 = 20 August 1997 | president3 = Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | predecessor3 = Ali Larijani | successor3 = Ata'ollah Mohajerani | office4 = Advisor to the President of Iran for Research | president4 = Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | term_start4 = August 1989 | term_end4 = February 1994 | successor4 = Hassan Ghafourifard | office5 = Top Advisor to the President of Iran | president5 = Ali Khamenei | term_start5 = August 1982 | term_end5 = August 1989 | predecessor5 = ''Office established'' | successor5 = Mir-Hossein Mousavi | office6 = Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran | president6 = Ali Khamenei | term_start6 = August 1982 | term_end6 = 5 September 1989 | predecessor6 = ''Office established'' | successor6 = Hassan Habibi | birth_name = Seyed Mostafa Agha Mir-Salim<ref name="homepage"/> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|06|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Tehran, Imperial State of Iran | death_date = | death_place = | party = Islamic Coalition Party | other_party = Islamic Republican Party {{small|(1980–87)}} | children = 3, 2 daughters and 1 son<ref>{{cite news|url=http://tabnak.ir/fa/news/686838/%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C-6%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C|title=مشخصات شناسنامهای 6کاندیدای ریاستجمهوری|date=21 April 2017}}</ref> | spouse = | alma_mater = University of Poitiers<br>École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique<br>IFP School | signature = Mostafa Mir-Salim signature.png | website = {{Official website|https://mirsalim.com}} | allegiance = Iran | service_years = 1980–1981 | commands = Shahrbani | caption = Mir-Salim in 2017 }} '''Mostafa Mir-Salim''' (Persian: مصطفی میرسلیم; born 10 June 1947)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://maslahat.ir/index.jsp?pageid=739 | title=مجمع تشخیص مصلحت نظام }}</ref> is an Iranian engineer and conservative politician. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was formerly a member of Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2020 to 2024.
He was a presidential candidate at the 2017 election which placed third with receiving 1.16% of the votes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kumaraswamy |first1=P. R. |last2=Quamar |first2=Md. Muddassir |last3=Singh |first3=Manjari |title=Persian Gulf 2018: India's Relations with the Region |date=2019 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Singapore |isbn=978-981-13-1977-8 |page=60}}</ref>
== Early life and education == He obtained B.Sc. in Mechanics from Universite de Poitiers in 1969, M.Sc. in Mechanics from École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique and M.Sc. Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics from Attestation d`Eludes Approfondies, Universite de Poitiers both in 1971 and M.Sc. in Internal Combustion Engines from École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs in 1972.<ref name="homepage">{{cite web|title=S. Mostafa Agha Mirsalim homepage|url=http://me.aut.ac.ir/S.Mirsalim.htm|publisher=Amirkabir University of Technology|access-date=2013-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101010605/http://me.aut.ac.ir/S.Mirsalim.htm|archive-date=2014-01-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He worked as an intern in Alsace Mechanical Industries until 1976, when he returned to Iran.<ref name="id"/> He worked at Tehran Metro as the operational director from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="id"/>
== Career == Mir-Salim served as the national police chief following the Iranian Revolution.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|title=Iran's Police Chief Chosen as Premier in Compromise Move|work=The New York Times|date=27 July 1980|page=1|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/07/27/archives/irans-police-chief-chosen-as-premier-in-compromise-move-effect-on.html}}</ref> He was proposed by then president Abulhassan Banisadr in July 1980 as a candidate for the prime minister as a compromise candidate acceptable to both Banisadr and the Majlis dominated by the Islamic Republican Party.<ref name=nyt/><ref name=milani>{{cite book|author=Mohsen M. Milani|title=The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic|publisher=Westview Press|year=1994|isbn=0-8133-8476-1|page=176}}</ref> However, Banisadr was pressured to accept Mohammad-Ali Rajai instead.<ref name=milani/> From 1981 to 1989, Mir-Salim was the advisor to then president Ayatollah Khamenei.<ref name=pet1apr/>
In the beginning of 1989, on the occasion of the death and funeral of Hirohito, the 124th Emperor of Japan who had ruled for over 60 years until he died on January 7, Mir-Salim and Hossein Saffar Harandi, a Member of Parliament and the Chairman of Parliament Committee on Agriculture, went to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to attend the Rites of Imperial Funeral on February 24 with Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiary in Japan, and his wife.<ref>''Diplomatic Blue Book: the Year of 1989 - 5. Delegation Representatives of Countries and Organizations that Attended the Rites of Imperial Funeral of Emperor Shōwa'' (『外交青書 1989年版』 - 5.[http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/bluebook/1989/h01-shiryou-5.htm 「昭和天皇大喪の礼」に参列した国及び国際機関の代表)] {{in lang|ja}}, published by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan</ref>
Mir-Salim was appointed Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance in 1994.<ref name=pet1apr>{{cite news|last=Feuilherade|first=Peter|title=Iran: media and the message|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Iran%3a+media+and+the+message.-a015353089|accessdate=19 June 2013|newspaper=The Middle East|date=1 April 1994}}</ref> His tenure was characterized by a strongly conservative Islamist direction, aiming to stave off the "cultural onslaught" of Western culture and promote pious Islamic culture in its place, including through the use of repressive measures. The Ministry under his direction was particularly known for closing a number of reformist newspapers.<ref>{{cite book |author=Mehdi Moslem|title=Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran|publisher=Syracuse University Press|year=2002|isbn=0-8156-2978-8| pages=221–223}}</ref>
He was later appointed to the Expediency Discernment Council.<ref name=edc>{{cite web|title=Appointment of New members of Expediency Discernment Council |date=17 March 1997 |url=http://farsi.khamenei.ir/message-content?id=4802}}</ref>
He is assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran.<ref name="homepage"/>
== Electoral history == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! Year ! Election ! Votes ! % ! Rank ! Notes |- | 2017 | President | 478,267 | 1.16% | 3rd | {{Lost}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Final results of presidential election by province and county|url=https://www.moi.ir/Portal/home/?news/469742/469971/497969/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC-%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%B5%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C|accessdate=8 June 2017|agency=Ministry of Interior|language=Persian|date=8 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010165111/https://www.moi.ir/Portal/home/?news%2F469742%2F469971%2F497969%2F%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC-%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%B5%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C|archive-date=10 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | 2020 | Parliament | 892,318 | 48.45% | 2nd | {{Won}} |}
== Personal life == According to ''Iranian Diplomacy'', Mirsalim is married to an Iranian woman.<ref name="id"/> He is fond of swimming and usually wears shenandoah beard, collarless tuxedos and dark calottes that serve as his signature look.<ref name="id">{{citation|url=http://www.irdiplomacy.ir/en/page/1965559/Mostafa+Mirsalim+Back+after+Two+Decades.html|title=Mostafa Mirsalim: Back after Two Decades|work=Iranian Diplomacy|date=18 December 2016|accessdate=1 May 2017}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category|Mostafa Mir-Salim}}
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