Education
University of Nottingham.
University of Nottingham.
Tavakkoli was the 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). He founded Resalat, a conservative newspaper, and later left Iran to study economics in the United Kingdom, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy. Tavakkoli is a critic of a capitalist economy, and backs the government"s role in controlling the economy. Tavakkoli is also one of the fierce critics of the President Ahmadinejad.
Tavakkoli temporarily left politics after the leftists oppositions forced him out of the ministry of labour. Views and personal life.