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Mohammad Reza Aref
Mohammad Reza Aref (محمدرضا عارف) (born 1951? in Yazd) is an Iranian politician and university professor. Since 2001, he is the First Vice President of Iran, under President Mohammad Khatami.
Aref was a chancellor of University of Tehran (1994–1997) and then the Minister of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone (PTT), a post later renamed to Minister of Communications and Information Technology, from August 28, 1997 to June, 2000.
He received his bachelor's degree in electronics from Tehran University in 1975. From Stanford University, he earned both his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1976 and his Ph.D. in electrical and communication engineering in 1980. As of 2004, he also teaches as a professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, specifically lecturing courses on cryptography and coding theory.
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