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. After that, he published another reformist newspaper named shargh till 2006. Now he is the manager of Ham-Mihan newspaper.

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