Hamidreza Jalaeipour (Persian: حمیدرضا جلاییپور; born 1957) is an Iranian sociologist and journalist, member of the Central Council of the Iran participation front, assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Tehran and one of the main members of the Iranian Sociological Association.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology at the University of Tehran with a privileged ranking in the year 1366 to 1371.
At present, he is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Tehran and a member of the Central Council of the Iran participation front.
Several Journalists have accused Jalaeipour for being responsible for execution of 59 political prisoners in Kurdish region in Iran while he was a governor in Naghde in 1984.
[2] In 1999, during his speech, when someone asked about these executions, he defended himself and said : "Those 59 prisoners were part of armed groups, and they were convicted to death in a trial"[3] His main areas of research interest are political sociology and political movements in Iran.