Mehdi Kouchakzadeh (Persian: مهدی کوچک‌زاده) is an Iranian hydraulic engineer, academic and principlist politician, who is the current member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly since 2024.

"[3] He engaged in a shouting match with Javad Zarif in a June 2015 session, calling him a "traitor".

The scene was recorded by cellphone cameras and went viral on social media.

[4] In an August 2014 interview, he said that the majority of Iranian journalists "write lies in return for money."

In 2013, Koochakzadeh called Iranian photographers "pornographers" for taking pictures of parliament members while they were napping during sessions.