Mohammad Mokhber

Mohammad Mokhber is an Iranian politician who became acting president of Iran after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in the Varzaqan helicopter crash on 19 May 2024. Mokhber has also been the 7th First Vice President of Iran since 2021. He is also the current member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Previously, he was also the head of the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order committee, an executive at the Mostazafan Foundation, chairman of the board of Sina Bank, deputy governor of Khuzestan Province and CEO of Dezful Telecommunications. During the Iraq-Iran war, he was a medical officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and before the war he was a member of the revolutionary Mansurun Group.