Career
He is imprisoned at Evin Prison since 2009. Tajzadeh was briefly Acting Minister of Interior under administration of President Mohammad Khatami after impeachment of Abdollah Nouri, advisor to President Mohammad Khatami in his last two years of administration, a deputy at Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Culture. With the start of the Iranian Revolution in 1978, he left university and returned to Iran.
Tajzadeh served as the Political deput of the Ministry of Interior of Iran in the government of Mohammad Khatami, and under the Minister Abdollah Noori, since 1997, after being introduced to Noori by Gholamhossein Karbaschi and Mohammad Atrianfar.
The first Iranian elections for the City and Village Councils of Iran happened under Tajzadeh. Later, he became an Adviser to the President of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, from November 21, 2004 until the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He started working in the Islamic Republic government as an employee of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in May 1982. He went up to became a vice minister when Mohammad Khatami was the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
He left the ministry after a while, and worked for the newspaper Hamshahri until 1997.
Tajzadeh was one of seven leading reformists who filed a lawsuit against several commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for their alleged intervention in Iran’s rigged presidential elections. In March 2001, while he was Political deputy at Ministry of Interior faced with charges of election fraud at Iranian legislative election, 2000 after a clash with Guardian Council. He was barred from all government employment for three years, but did not appeal the verdict.
Amnesty International reported that he was arrested in June 2009, amidst the 2009 Iranian election protests.
He was convicted of “assembly and collusion against national security” and “propaganda against the regime”, sentenced to 6 years in prison and a 10-year ban on political and press activities by Branch 15 of the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court. He is imprisoned in Evin Prison since 2009.
In 2014, while still in prison, he faced new charges and was cnvicted of another 1 year in prison.
