Hooshang Amirahmadi

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Hooshang Amirahmadi
American–Iranian Council
Websitehttp://www.amirahmadi.com/

Hooshang Amirahmadi (

Iranian presidential elections
in 2005, 2013 and 2017.

Career

Amirahmadi is the founder and president of

American–Iranian Council, holds a Ph.D. in planning and international development from Cornell University and is a professor of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.[5] He has served as director of Rutgers University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, as chair and graduate director of his department at the Bloustein School, and as the University Coordinator of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program.[5] Amirahmadi is also a founder of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis and served as its director for many years. Amirahmadi is also the president of Caspian Associates, Inc., an international strategic consulting firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.[6]

Amirahmadi is a recognized expert on Iranian affairs, and has been called on to comment on this topic in national media.[7][8]

Publications

Amirahmadi has published extensively on the topic of Middle-Eastern relations. He is the author of Revolution and Economic Transition: The Iranian Experience, an analysis of post-revolutionary Iran, and the three other books in Persian on civil society, industrial policy, and geopolitics of energy. He is also editor of ten books on Iran and the Greater Middle East, and 16 conference proceedings on US-Iran relations.[citation needed]

Presidential candidacy

He registered as a candidate for president in the

Ninth Presidential Election in Iran in June 2005.[9]

Amirahmadi was the presidential candidate of a reformist platform for the 2013 Iranian presidential elections.[4]

Amirahmadi supported normalizing Iranian relations with the US, and using the opportunity for economic development.[10] He supports gender equality and female career advancement.[11] If elected, Amirahmadi's administration would have supported creating a coalition government in Syria.[12]

On 21 May 2013, Iran's Guardian Council rejected him and many others from the list of approved candidates.[13]

He announced his candidacy for the presidency for the third time in the

2017 election.[14]
His third bid was also rejected and he was disqualified.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "amirahmadi.com/english/curriculum-vitae".
  2. ^ "american-iranian.org".
  3. ^ "policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/amirahmadi".
  4. ^ a b Sawage, Sean (11 February 2013). "Iranian presidential candidate campaigns with new-age tactics in old-school country". JNS. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  5. ^ a b "Hooshang Amiramahdi, Ph.D." Rutgers University. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Hooshang Amirahmadi". 2 April 2023.
  7. ^ Slavin, Barbara (12 March 2001). "U.S. to renew ban on trade with Iran White House takes its time on policy". USA Today. p. A.06.
  8. ^ "Missile test does not vex expert on U.S.-Iran ties". The Washington Times. 29 July 1998.
  9. ^ Staff (15 May 2005). "Iranian in U.S. takes on Tehran". The Washington Times.
  10. ^ Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi (5 March 2013). "I am running for the Iranian Presidency. My name is Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi. Ask me anything (again)! (comment c8ptpkx)". Reddit. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  11. ^ Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi (5 March 2013). "I am running for the Iranian Presidency. My name is Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi. Ask me anything (again)! (comment 8psd8z)". Reddit. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  12. ^ Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi (5 March 2013). "I am running for the Iranian Presidency. My name is Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi. Ask me anything (again)! (comment c8pti7j)". Reddit. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  13. ^ Bahmani, Arash (22 May 2013). "The Arbiter of State Expediency is Disqualified". Rooz. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  14. ^ Iranian-American professor gears up for presidential election, Track Persia, 29 March 2017, retrieved 29 March 2017

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