| Ahmad Tavakkoli احمد توکلی |
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|---|---|
| Minister of Labour of Iran | |
| In office 12 November 1981 – 1 November 1985 |
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| President | Ali Khamenei |
| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Preceded by | Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi |
| Succeeded by | Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh |
| Member of Parliament of Iran | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2004 |
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| Constituency | Tehran |
| In office 1980–1984 |
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| Constituency | Behshahr |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1951 Behshahr, Iran |
| Political party | Islamic Coalition Party |
| Residence | Tehran, Iran |
| Religion | Twelver Shi'a Islam |
| Website | alef.ir |
Ahmad Tavakkoli (Persian: احمد توکلی) is a conservative representative of Tehran in the Iranian parliament, and the Director of Majlis Research Center.
Before, he had been the Iranian Minister of Labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, and a presidential candidate in two of the presidential elections in Iran (running against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, both in their second terms).
Tavakkoli temporarily left politics after the leftists oppositions forced him out of the Ministry of Labour. He founded Resalat, a conservative newspaper, and later left Iran to study economics in the UK, where he got his Ph.D..
Tavakkoli is a critic of a capitalistic economy, and backs the government's role in controlling the economy. He is a cousin of the Larijani brothers, the most famous of which are Ali Larijani and Mohammad Javad Larijani.
On March 2, 2011, the PBS' Tehran Bureau reported that Tavakkoli criticized President Ahmadinejad for mentioning only Iran and not Islam in recent speeches.[1]