12th Islamic Consultative Assembly · Islamic Republic of Iran
Saeid Rahmatzadeh Poshtiri
Member of Parliament for Sowme’eh Sara
- Deputy representative for Bandar-e Anzali
- Member of the Parliamentary Economic Committee
- Chair, Free & Special Economic Zones Oversight Faction
- Attorney at law — Central Bar Association
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The record at a glance
- 24,760
- votes cast for him
- General election, 1 March 2024
- 126
- MPs signed his bill
- Digital Economy Bill
- 25
- articles in the bill
- Registered as No. 341
- 2
- counties represented
- Sowme’eh Sara and Bandar-e Anzali
Sixty-eight votes
In one of the closest contests anywhere in the country in the 12th parliamentary election, the distance between winning and losing came down to sixty-eight ballots. Each ballot a decision; each decision a person.
Total valid votes 60,260
That number is less an electoral statistic than an obligation. When a mandate is handed over by sixty-eight votes, no vote is marginal and no request is small. That understanding has shaped the working method of the past four years.
Official figures: IRIB News, IRNA and Gil Khabar — March 2024.
Responsibilities
His parliamentary path has followed one clear line from the beginning: the economy. A seat on the Economic Committee, the chair of a national specialist faction in his first year, and a second county placed in his charge.
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Member, Parliamentary Economic Committee
Since June 2024
The committee where taxation, free zones, the budget and business regulation are examined — precisely the ground on which his record is built.
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Chair, Free & Special Economic Zones Oversight Faction
Since January 2025
Taking the chair of a national specialist faction in a first parliamentary term is uncommon. The faction’s stated mission: to examine, supervise and clear away the obstacles that have entangled investors inside the free zones.
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Deputy representative for Bandar-e Anzali
Since 25 September 2024
By vote of the Gilan parliamentary assembly, after the Anzali representative was appointed Minister of Sport and Youth. The confidence of provincial colleagues widened his remit to two counties.
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Attorney at law
Central Bar Association
His professional grounding is legal: bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral study in law, alongside university teaching. That legal eye shapes how he enters an economic file.
The Digital Economy Bill
His most significant parliamentary achievement, and the only bill of this term whose authorship is recorded explicitly in his name. Gathering 126 members’ signatures behind a single bill is a rare showing of parliamentary reach for a first-term member.
- Registration number
- 341
- Signatures
- 126
- Articles
- 25
- Author
- Saeid Rahmatzadeh Poshtiri
- Formally received
- Plenary session, 5 Nov 2025
- Outline approved
- Economic Committee, 7 Dec 2025
The outline of the bill has been approved in the Economic Committee; article-by-article review is under way.
The digital economy is of great importance in today’s world and in our country. We hope to deliver a sound law that supports these businesses and creates the right framework and the transparency needed to oversee them.
Bodies consulted on the bill
- Strategic Deputy of the Judiciary
- Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology
- Plan and Budget Organization
- Ministry of Information and Communications Technology
- Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade
- Ministry of Science, Research and Technology
- Ministry of Health and Medical Education
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare
- Department of Environment
- Innovation and Prosperity Fund
- Computer Trade Organization
- Parliamentary Research Center
Ziabar, inside the Anzali Free Zone
The file on extending the boundary of the Anzali Free Zone had been moving since 2019 and was finally passed on 20 October 2024 by 203 members of parliament. The Ziabar industrial estate in Sowme’eh Sara is one of the areas annexed.
The vote — 20 October 2024
- 203 In favour
- 15 Against
- 8 Abstained
of 243 members present
Dr. Rahmatzadeh sat on the Economic Committee at the point of final passage, and afterwards, as chair of the Free Zones Oversight Faction, took on the execution phase — the work of turning that boundary change into something Sowme’eh Sara can actually use. The distance between a law being passed and a result reaching people is exactly where his work is defined.
Areas annexed
- Ziabar industrial estate Sowme’eh Sara
- Khomiran industrial estate Bandar-e Anzali
- Sefidrud industrial estate Rasht
- Sardar-e Jangal Airport Rasht
The faction’s mission, in its chair’s words
To examine, supervise and clear away the obstacles that have entangled investors inside the free and special economic zones.
We will avoid scattered, piecemeal action and pursue the central issues through legislation, amendment of existing law, field visits and oversight reports.
Mehr News and ISNA — January 2025
Sowme’eh Sara County
A county in western Gilan, between wetland, paddy field and forest: three districts, nine rural districts and more than nine hundred kilometres of main, secondary and rural road. The map below is vectorised from the official 1:250,000 physical map of the county.
In the field
A selection of the projects and interventions completed or under way in the county during his term.
Tolam-Shahr Fibre to the home and business
A fibre-to-the-home network built across Tolam-Shahr, transforming internet speed and stability for more than two thousand households. Opened in the presence of the county’s representative.
Ziabar industrial estate — Haft-Daghnan Production-barriers service desk
A service desk convened with the governor’s economic deputy, the county governor, a senior delegation from the national Industrial Estates Company and the managing director of the Anzali Free Zone Organization; centred on the electricity shortfall and the fate of industrial units repossessed by banks.
Chamsaghal village Telecommunications mast
The opening of a telecommunications mast site for the village, with the representative pressing for coverage along the county’s transit routes.
Sowme’eh Sara town Third production line, plastics plant
A third production line brought online at a plastics manufacturer, opened alongside the Governor of Gilan and the county governor.
Kishestan — Nokhaleh road Five kilometres of resurfacing
Funding allocated to resurface the Kishestan–Nokhaleh road. The reporting agency attributed the work explicitly to the follow-up and assistance of the member for Sowme’eh Sara.
Sowme’eh Sara & Bandar-e Anzali Health system review for both counties
A working session with the president of Gilan University of Medical Sciences on the state of health services across both counties, pressing for specialist physicians, medical equipment and support staff.
Bandar-e Anzali Shahid Beheshti Hospital, 96-bed expansion
A joint site visit with the president of Gilan University of Medical Sciences and the Anzali county governor. The visit produced an immediate instruction to complete and equip the expansion.
Gilan province Pressing for fibre network expansion
“Fifteen hundred fibre subscribers in Gilan is not worthy of this province.” A direct national-level demand for the province’s communications infrastructure to be brought up to standard.
National Free zone social responsibility for public libraries
In a meeting with the secretary-general of the Iran Public Libraries Foundation, he proposed drawing on the social-responsibility budgets of the free zone organizations to expand public libraries.
A consistent line
His economic positions have held steady across the term: shrinking the state’s operational role, putting the economy in people’s hands, transferring energy infrastructure to credible private operators, and digitising the tax system.
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What must be borne in mind about economic resilience are the higher provisions of the constitution, the general policies of the system, and the Seventh Five-Year Development Plan — all of which stress putting the economy in the hands of the people.
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The country’s economy rests on the production of goods and services, and production in turn requires effective, durable infrastructure.
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Drawing up the spatial planning document is the key to Gilan’s development. Where the funding and the capacity sit must be set out in that document. Today we are stuck with formulaic per-capita figures, while despite the sheer volume of the province’s floating population, the agencies get no share of it.
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Rolling out electronic invoicing is one of the key elements of digitising the tax system; with upstream oversight it lays the ground for solving taxpayers’ problems, such as fraudulent invoicing.
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We have to bring coherence between demands and projects. If in Sowme’eh Sara or Anzali we have a few defined projects, each with a project code and a budget-law annex, and every representative and official defends them, then we can be accountable to the people.
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If we are going to talk about economic success — people do not measure it by reports and statistics. They ask what has been done to improve the conditions of their lives.
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One of the existing challenges is the shortcomings of the means-testing law, which unfairly excludes some households. Its indicators need to be revisited against the realities of society and the actual cost of living.
The term, in order
Documented events of his parliamentary term, from his first electoral contest to the present.
2015
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A first electoral contest
Registered and approved as a candidate for the 10th parliament from the Sowme’eh Sara constituency — the start of a continuous eight-year presence in the county’s political life.
Diyar-e Mirza
2024
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Official candidate of the Coalition Council
Presented as the official candidate of the Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces in the Sowme’eh Sara constituency.
Shana News -
Elected by a margin of 68 votes
24,760 votes of 60,260 valid ballots, entering the 12th parliament through one of the closest contests anywhere in the country.
IRIB, IRNA, Gil Khabar -
Parliament opens; seat on the Economic Committee
A specialist track chosen from the first days: the Economic Committee, where taxation, free zones and business regulation are examined.
ICANA -
Named deputy representative for Bandar-e Anzali
By vote of the Gilan parliamentary assembly — widening his remit to two counties.
Young Journalists Club -
Anzali Free Zone boundary extension passed
Parliament passed the extension by 203 votes, annexing the Ziabar industrial estate in Sowme’eh Sara to the Anzali Free Zone. The most consequential economic event of the term.
IRIB, ISNA
2025
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Chair of the Free Zones Oversight Faction
The faction held its first session at the Economic Committee — the chair of a national specialist faction taken in a first parliamentary year.
Mehr News Agency -
Funding for the Kishestan–Nokhaleh resurfacing
Twenty billion toman allocated for five kilometres of resurfacing, with the representative’s follow-up named explicitly in the reporting.
Mehr News Agency -
A statement on putting the economy in people’s hands
The clearest statement of position in the term: economic resilience through diversity of commercial capacity and a smaller operational role for the state.
ICANA -
National demand for fibre expansion in Gilan
The province’s communications shortfall raised directly at national level, with a demand that it be made good.
Diyar-e Mirza -
Digital Economy Bill formally received
A bill of 25 articles, carrying 126 members’ signatures and authored by him, formally received in plenary session. Registered as No. 341.
Rasa News -
Outline of the bill approved in committee
The Economic Committee approved the outline of the bill and moved to article-by-article review.
Digiato -
Linking free zones to public libraries
In a meeting with the secretary-general of the Iran Public Libraries Foundation, he proposed using free zone social-responsibility capacity to expand libraries.
Iran Public Libraries Foundation
2026
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Pressing for Gilan’s spatial planning document
The technical argument of the “floating population” advanced as grounds for revising the province’s per-capita service and funding formulas.
Mehr News Agency -
Tolam-Shahr fibre network opened
More than 2,200 households connected to the fibre network at a cost of 7.8 billion toman.
Entekhab News -
Service desk at the Ziabar industrial estate
A senior national and provincial delegation convened at the estate to identify barriers to production and investment.
Khabar Online Gilan -
The case for coherent advocacy
A working method set out: choose a few key projects, each with a project code and a budget-law annex, rather than scattering demands.
Fars Gilan
People do not measure success by reports and statistics. They ask what has been done to improve the conditions of their lives.