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mohammad bagher ghalibaf or mohammad baqer qalibaf -lrb- , born 23 august 1961 -rrb- is an iranian conservative politician , professor , a former irgc air force and a pilot of iran air and police commander .
he is the 55th and current mayor of tehran , serving his third term since his first election in 2005 .
he was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but lost to hassan rouhani , in second place with 6,077,292 of the votes .
he was also a candidate in the 2005 presidential election .
he holds a ph.d. in political geography from tarbiat modares university .
he is also a pilot , certified to fly certain airbus aircraft .
he began his military career during the iran-iraq war in 1980 .
he became chief commander of imam reza troops in 1982 and was chief commander of nasr troops from 1983 to 1984 .
after the end of the war , he became managing-director of khatam al-anbia , an engineering firm controlled by the iranian revolutionary guard corps -lrb- also known as sepah -rrb- and was appointed as commander of the irgc air force in 1996 by ali khamenei .
four years later , he became chief of the iranian police forces after the previous commander was dismissed following the 1999 student protests .
he was also appointed as representative of president mohammad khatami during a campaign to combat smuggling in 2002 .
in september 2005 , he was elected as tehran 's mayor by the city council of tehran .
he is also a professor at the university of tehran .
