Education
In 1989, he graduated from Nikan High School in Tehran, which was funded by a conservative religious group before Iran"s revolution in order to provide the students, from elementary to high school, with a non-secular education.
In 1989, he graduated from Nikan High School in Tehran, which was funded by a conservative religious group before Iran"s revolution in order to provide the students, from elementary to high school, with a non-secular education.
In the same year, he entered University of Tehran to study civil engineering but later changed his major. He has also studied in Belgium. He is also a businessman.
He runs a large export-import firm that includes baby food, bottled water and industrial machinery.
According to Forbes, "he owns a 30-acre horse farm in the super-fashionable Lavasan neighborhood of north Tehran, where land goes for over $4 million an acre.".