Maurice Motamed Biography

Maurice Motamed or Morris Motamed (Persian: موریس معتمد‎; born 1945) was elected in 2000 and again in 2004 as a Jewish member of the Iranian Parliament (preceded by Manuchehr Eliasi and succeeded by Siamak Moreh Sedgh), representing the Jewish community which has by Iran's constitution retained a reserved seat since the Persian Constitution of 1906.