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Isa Kalantari

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Isa Kalantari
Vice President of Iran
Head of Department of Environment
In office
13 August 2017 – 3 October 2021
PresidentHassan Rouhani
Preceded byMasoumeh Ebtekar
Succeeded byAli Salajegheh
Minister of Agriculture
In office
20 September 1988 – 14 January 2001
PresidentAli Khamenei
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mohammad Khatami
Prime MinisterMir Hossein Mousavi
Preceded byAbbas Ali Zali
Succeeded byMahmoud Hojjati (Merged in Jihad of Construction Ministry)
Personal details
Born
Isa Kalantari

1952 (age 71–72)
Marand, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
NationalityIranian
Political partyExecutives of Construction Party
Alma materUrmia University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Iowa State University
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionAgricultural engineer
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Isa Kalantari (Persian: عیسی کلانتری, born 1952 in Marand, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian politician and former vice president, former head of Urmia Lake Restoration Program, and the former head of Department of Environment, serving from 2017 to 2021. He served as minister of agriculture in last year of Khamenei's presidency, in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and also in first term of President Khatami.

Isa Kalantari lost his elder brother, Mousa, in Hafte Tir bombing on 28 June 1981.

He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from University of Nebraska, and PhD in agricultural physiology from Iowa State University.[1] He was a member of the Center for Strategic Research in the Expediency Discernment Council.[2] In 2001, he founded Iran's House of Farmers and has been serving as its director since then.

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  1. ^ Kalantari, Issa (1981-01-01). "Stimulation of corn seedling growth by allelochemicals from soybean residue". Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-5619.
  2. ^ "مرکز تحقیقات استراتژیک - کادرعلمی - دکتر عیسی کلانتری". Csr.ir. Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2014-02-02.