[2] Then he obtained a master's degree in civil engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran.

He held this post first in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi from 1985 to 1989.

[1] On 24 August 2005 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed him the minister of housing and urban development.

[11] He also served as the head of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development from May 2008 to August 2009.

[12] He was head of the Bonyad-e Mostazafen va Janbazan (Foundation of the Oppressed and Disabled), the second-largest commercial enterprise in Iran (behind the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company)[13] and biggest holding company in the Middle East, between years of 2014 to 2019.