Mehdi Chamran

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Mehdi Chamran (Persian: مهدی چمران) is an Iranian politician and the Chairman of the City Council of Tehran since 2003. He received the most number of votes from the Tehrani electorate in both of the elections he was elected in, in 2002 and 2006.

A major supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his mayorship, Chamran turned towards Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and his supporters during the the 2006 elections, which resulted in a three-way split of the third Tehran council between the two conservative factions and reformist canidates. Comparatively, the second council only consisted of conservative members and the first council mostly of reformist members.

Mehdi Chamran is the brother of Mostafa Chamran, a famous Iranian politician and militiary commander who died in 1981 during the Iran-Iraq War.