Gholam Reza Aghazadeh (Persian: غلامرضا آقازاده; born 15 March 1949) is an Iranian politician.
He was an active member of the opposition, and in 1979 he became a director of the ultra-populist IRP newspaper Jomhouri Eslami, run by Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Later he held the title of deputy prime minister for executive affairs in charge of Iran's oil barter deals with foreign states and companies under a countertrade system started in 1982.
He held this position until 1997 when he was replaced by Bijan Namdar Zanganeh after the election of the reformist president Mohammad Khatami.
[3] There has been speculation that he resigned following shutdowns and failures in Iran's nuclear program caused by the Stuxnet virus.