title: Isa Kalantari
text: # Isa Kalantari
  
  Issa Kalantari (Persian: عیسی کلانتری, born 1952 in Marand, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian politician and former head of Department of Environment, serving from 2017 to 2021. He served as minister of agriculture in last year of Khamenei's presidency, in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and also in first term of President Khatami.
  
  Isa Kalantari lost his elder brother, Mousa, in Hafte Tir bombing on 28 June 1981.
  
  He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from University of Nebraska, and PhD in agricultural physiology from Iowa State University. He was a member of the Center for Strategic Research in the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2001, he founded Iran's House of Farmers and has been serving as its director since then.
  
  