Masoud Pezeshkian
Masoud Pezeshkian is an Iranian reformist politician who is currently representing Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district in the Parliament of Iran and serves as its First Deputy Speaker since 29 May 2016.
He was Minister of Health between 2001 and 2005 in the cabinet of President Mohammad Khatami.Career
He was the chancellor of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences for 7 years. He is a heart surgeon and an academic member of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences at the present time. He is elected as one of Iranian parliament members from Tabriz in 2008 election. He had a speech on condemnation of violence against fraud in Iranian presidential election on June 30, 2009 in Iran parliament. In 2010, he failed in his bid to become deputy speaker of parliament. He is also a member of Iran-Turkey Friendship society.Views
Pezeshkian supports teaching of Azerbaijani language in Iranian schools.COVID-19 outbreak
On 3 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, Pezeshkian claimed that the figures reported by Iran’s health ministry are "not real".
