
Eshaq Jahangiri (21 January 1958-) was the First Vice President of Iran from 3 August 2013, succeeding Mohammad Reza Rahimi. He was a member of the liberal Executives of Construction Party.
Biography[]
Eshaq Jahangiri Koushahi was born in Sirjan, Iran in 1958, and he was active in revolutionary groups during the leadup to the Iranian Revolution. He became deputy head of the agriculture department in Kerman in 1980, and he served in the Parliament of Iran from 1984 to 1992, as Governor of Isfahan Province from 1992 to 1997, as Minister of Mines and Metals from 1997 to 2001, and as Ministry of Industries and Mines from 2001 to 2005. Jahangiri belonged to the reformist "Isfahani" wing of the Executives of Construction Party, and he ran for President in 2013 before withdrawing in favor of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and becoming his campaign manager. He went on to serve as President Hassan Rouhani's First Vice President from 2013, and he was reappointed in 2017 after Rouhani's re-election. He briefly fell ill with COVID-19 in 2020 before recovering from his illness.