Mohammad Nabi Habibi (Persian: محمدنبی حبیبی, 19 December 1945 – 29 January 2019) was an Iranian politician and sociologist who was Secretary-General of the Islamic Coalition Party from 2004 until his death in 2019.
He was Mayor of Tehran from 1983 until 1987, for a span lasting 44 months.
[1][2] Habibi was a part of the opposition movements against Mohammad Reza Shah during the Pahlavi era and was jailed before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
After the revolution he gained a strong political profile and was appointed to key positions including:[citation needed]