Isa Kalantari


Issa Kalantari is an Iranian politician and the current head of Department of Environment. He served as minister of agriculture in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and first term of president Mohammad Khatami.
He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from University of Nebraska, and PhD in agricultural physiology from Iowa State University. He is a member of the Center for Strategic Research in the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2001, he founded Iran's House of Farmers and has been serving as its director since then.