Sowlat Mortazavi
Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 October 2022
President	Ebrahim Raisi
Preceded by	Hojjatollah Abdolmaleki Mohammad Hadi Zahedivafa (Acting)
Vice President of Iran for Executive Affairs
In office 5 September 2021 – 19 October 2022
President	Ebrahim Raisi
Preceded by	Office vacant, last held by Mohammad Shariatmadari (2017)
Succeeded by	Mohsen Mansouri
Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran
In office 5 September 2021 – 19 October 2022
President	Ebrahim Raisi
Preceded by	Mahmoud Vaezi
Succeeded by	Mohsen Mansouri
Mayor of Mashhad
In office 1 October 2013 – 1 September 2017
Preceded by	Mohammad Pejman
Succeeded by	Ghasem Taghizadeh-Khamesi
Governor General of South Khorasan
In office 2005–2009
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Ebrahim Rezaei Babadi
Succeeded by	Ghahreman Rashid
Personal details
Born	(1955-05-05) 5 May 1955 (age 68) Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
Political party	Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution[1]

Sowlat Mortazavi (Persian: صولت مرتضوی, born 5 May 1955) is an Iranian conservative politician and the current Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of Iran. He is former Vice President of Iran for Executive Affairs and also former Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran.

He is former Mayor of Mashhad. He was elected as the Mayor by the City Council by 19 votes on 20 September 2013 and sworn in on 1 October.^[2] Before that, he was under-secretary in Politics of Ministry of Interior during Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar's time as Interior Minister. He was also Mayor of Birjand from 1990 to 1999.^[3]

He was appointed as head of Country's Election Headquarters on 17 May 2011.^[4] On 20 June 2017, he was suspended from his position as Mayor of Mashhad and all political offices by administrative justice court after he prevented from auditing in the municipality.^[5]