Background
Bahonar was born on 2 February 1952 in Kerman.
Bahonar was born on 2 February 1952 in Kerman.
University of Tehran.
He is secretary general of Islamic Society of Engineers. He is the brother of former Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar who was assassinated in 1981. Bahonar cofounded the Islamic Society of Engineers in 1991.
He has been elected as a representative from Kerman and Tehran for six terms.
He also served at the Expediency Council for three terms. He later refused to run for the post of speaker possibly because of a deal made inside the conservative alliance, so he decided to run for the post of deputy speaker.
He became the first deputy speaker on 6 June 2004 with 188 votes out of 259. The other running candidate for the post of deputy speaker was Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard, a representative from Qazvin who became the second deputy speaker with 173 votes.
Following Hassan Rouhani"s election as President, Bahonar was appointed by Chairman Ali Larijani as the parliament"s liaison to the newly elected executive branch in transition mandate.
On 25 December 2015, he announced he will retiring from his seat in Iranian Parliament after declined to run in 2016 election. Attacking Iranian University students
In a speech at Shiraz University, Bahonar harshly attacked students of Amirkabir University who criticized Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in December 2006. His lecture generated anger among the students.
He also called for punishing the students, while accusing them of being sex and alcohol addicts.
He is considered a key member of the conservative alliance, and was considered a possible candidate for the post of the speaker or the leader of the conservative faction in the parliament.
