Safdar Hosseini (Persian: صفدر حسینی; born 1954) is an Iranian academic and politician, who has served in various cabinet posts.

[2] Hosseini was the minister of labour and social affairs in the cabinet of the president Mohammad Khatami from 2001 to 2004.

[2] Hosseini was replaced by Davoud Danesh-Jafari on 24 August 2005 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president.

[3] In 2016, while serving as the head of National Development Fund of Iran, it was leaked that Hosseini received more than $23,000 per month (dozens of times what the lowest-paid government workers earn).

[4] As a result of the scandal, Safdar Hosseini and his colleagues at the board of the Fund were forced to resign from the office.