About Mohsen Rezaee Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed (also spelt Mohsen Rezai, Persian: محسن رضایی میرقائد, born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed in 1954, Masjed Soleyman, Khuzestan), is an Iranian politician, economist and former military commander, currently the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Before that, Rezaee was the AGIR Chief Commander for 16 years. He was a candidate for the presidency in the 2009 Iranian elections, as a conservative. Education While studying mechanical engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Rezaee switched to economics after the Iran–Iraq War, studying at Tehran University, where he continued until 2001, when he received his Ph.D. in 2001. He co-founded Imam Hossein University and currently teaches there. AGIR career Rezaee became Chief Commander of the AGIR in 1981, when he was only 27 years old, and remained in the post until 1997, when he left the military forces for the Expediency Discernment Council, where he became the Secretary and the Chair of the Commission for Macroeconomics and Commerce.