List of foreign politicians of Iranian origin

This article contains a list of Wikipedia articles about politicians in countries outside Iran who are of Iranian origin.

Canada

• Ali Ehsassi – Member of the House of Commons of Canada
• Goldie Ghamari – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• Majid Jowhari – Member of the House of Commons
• Amir Khadir – Member of the National Assembly of Quebec
• Reza Moridi – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• Michael Parsa – Associate Minister of Housing of Ontario

France

• Pouria Amirshahi - Member of the National Assembly

Germany

• Bijan Djir-Sarai - Member of the Bundestag
• Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg - Mayor of Frankfurt
• Yasmin Fahimi - Member of the Bundestag
• Parsa Marvi - Member of the Bundestag
• Niema Movassat - Member of the Bundestag
• Michaela Noll - Member of the Bundestag
• Omid Nouripour - Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens
• Sahra Wagenknecht - Leader of the Opposition in the Bundestag (2015–2017) and of Die Linke in the Bundestag (2015–2019)

Israel

• Eliezer Avtabi - Member of the Knesset
• Michael Ben-Ari - Member of the Knesset
• Moshe Katsav - President of Israel (2000–2007)
• Shaul Mofaz - Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1998–2002), Defence Minister (2002–2006) and Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2009, 2012)

Netherlands

• Ulysse Ellian – Member of the House of Representatives
• Farah Karimi – Member of the House of Representatives

New Zealand

• Golriz Ghahraman – Member of the New Zealand Parliament

Norway

• Masud Gharahkhani – President of the Storting
• Mazyar Keshvari – Member of the Storting

Sweden

• Alireza Akhondi – Member of the Riksdag
• Minoo Akhtarzand – Governor of Jönköping County (2010–2016) and Governor of Västmanland County (2016-present)
• Hanif Bali – Member of the Riksdag
• Nooshi Dadgostar – Leader of the Left Party
• Ali Esbati – Member of the Riksdag
• Shadieh Heydari – Member of the Riksdag
• Reza Khelili Dylami – Member of the Riksdag
• Parisa Liljestrand – Minister of Culture (2022–present)
• Romina Pourmokhtari – Minister for the Environment (2022–present)
• Daniel Riazat – Member of the Riksdag
• Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson – Member of the Riksdag
• Ardalan Shekarabi – Minister for Public Administration (2014–2019) and Minister for Social Security (2019–2022)
• Maryam Yazdanfar – Member of the Riksdag

United Kingdom

• Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar - Member of the House of Lords
• David Alliance, Baron Alliance - Member of the House of Lords
• Seema Kennedy - Conservative MP and Parliamentary Undersecretary
• Ali Milani - Member of Labour Party

United States

US Congress

• Yassamin Ansari – Representative from Arizona
• Stephanie Bice – Representative from Oklahoma

State and territory levels

• Raumesh Akbari – Member of the Tennessee Senate and House of Representatives
• Dalya Attar – Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Jimmy Delshad – Mayor of Beverly Hills, California (2007–2008, 2010–2011)
• Anna Eskamani – Member of the Florida House of Representatives
• Darya Farivar – Member of the Washington House of Representatives
• Rey Garofano – Member of the Vermont House of Representatives
• Haraz Ghanbari – Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
• Cyrus Habib – Lieutenant Governor of Washington (2017–2021)
• Anna Kaplan – Member of the New York Senate
• Zahra Karinshak – Member of the Georgia Senate
• Ross Mirkarimi – Sheriff of San Francisco (2012, 2012–2016)
• Adrin Nazarian – Member of the California State Assembly
• Bob Yousefian – Mayor of Glendale, California (2004–2005)

See also

• List of heads of state and government of Indian origin
• List of foreign politicians of Chinese origin
• List of foreign politicians of Korean origin
• List of foreign politicians of Indian origin
• List of foreign politicians of Japanese origin
• List of foreign politicians of Vietnamese origin

References