Mohammad Atrianfar

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Mohammad Atrianfar (محمد عطریانفر; born 1953) is an Iranian journalist and reformist politician, currently the head of the "Policymaking Council" of the daily newspaper Shargh. He is a member of the Executives of Construction Party. He is a senior political advisor to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Previously, he has been elected a member of the City Council of Tehran from 1999 to 2003, and the Vice Minister of Interior in Politics under Minister Abdollah Noori. He has also been a vice president in Defence Industries Organization of Iran.

As a journalist, Atranfar has also been the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Hamshahri, appointed by Gholamhossein Karbaschi, until he was replaced in 2003 by Alireza Sheikh-Attar by the appointment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the then new mayor of Tehran.

Atrianfar has been born in Isfahan and has a degree in petroleum processing engineering from Sharif University of Technology.