Post in Iran was in the
form of "Bureau" before 1876 and all postal affairs have been done by
this Bureau. Because of some success in that year, the "Bureau" was
changed to the Ministry by the command of Naser-aldin Shah. By this command,
Amin-almolk, the Minister of tasks and council, was elected for executing this
ministry. After a year, in 1877, he resigned the Ministry of tasks and council
to have more time for supervising the affairs of the new ministry. During the
following years, this ministry was executed by Amin-almolk, as the minister and
Mirza Rahim as the deputy.
In 1882, a lithographed
booklet named "the Tariff of the Great Post Office of Iran" was
published. There were some maps from all of the telegram offices, post offices,
pony post roads and post network in that time in this booklet. According to the
content of the booklet, in Iran there were 7 main and 5 secondary post lines.
After this year, it seems
to have no major revision in that Bureau or Ministry of the Post but in its
organizational and structural form. After the presidency of Amir Kabir, new
revolutions appeared in the post of Iran. The posts of the Imperialists"
activities were in suspension and the postmen did the post affairs fast and
accurate according to the Amir"s discipline.
Post attained a new
organization in 1906. Telegraph bureau was attached to the Post and the
Ministry of Post and Telegraph formed. The first telephone patent assigned to
Basir-ol-mamalek in 1900 and thus telephone worked in Tehran. In 1929, the
Ministry of Post and Telegraph offered a proposal to the parliament for
purchasing the stocks of Telephone Company. Then the Ministry of Post and
Telegraph and Telephone was formed by pronouncing the permission and purchasing
the stocks of Telephone Company in the end of ………,
After this year
multilateral development had been done in this ministry till 2003. There were
several subsidiary company and center which developed many evolutions and
spread the communication situations by their ability and activity in post and
telecommunication fields.
Simultaneous with passing
the Bill of duties and responsibilities and renaming the ministry from
"Ministry of P.T.T" to "Ministry of I.C.T" in 2003 by the
parliament, and according to the structural reform of T.C.I, the new collection
of laws, tasks and authorizations of this ministry was codified.
Thus 3 companies: Data
Communication Company - renamed to I.C.T in 2005- T.I.C and M.C.I were
established beside T.C.I.
Some of the evolutions
are establishing T.C.I and I.R.I Post Company as well as organizing two
organizations named I.S.A and C.R.A, and also establishing two councils named
"High Council of IT" and "Space Council".
Ministers of ICT
01.
Dr. Mohammad Eslami: He worked as the Minister of P.T.T in the
transitional government.
02.
Dr. Seyed Mahmoud Ghandi: He was appointed the dean of the
Telecommunication College and then as the Minister of PTT by the council of the
revolution.On 28.6.1981, he and 72 other officials were martyred at the Islamic
Republic Party Central Office by an assassins attack.
03.
Seyed Morteza Nabavi: He was appointed the Financial – Administrative
Deputy of the Telecommunications Company of Iran in 1980 and then as the
Minister of P.T.T.
04.
Seyed Mohammad Gharazi: At 1981 he was appointed as the Minister of
Petroleum and from 1985 to 1997 as the Minister of P.T.T.
05.
Dr. Mohammad Reza Aref: From 1997 to 2000 he was the Minister of P.T.T.
06.
Nasr-o-allah Jahangard: He was the supervisor of the Ministry of P.T.T
from June to September of 2000.
07.
Dr. Seyed Abdollah Mirtaheri: He was appointed as the supervisor of the
Ministry of P.T.T. from September 2000 to January 2001.
08. Dr.
Seyed Ahmad Motamedi: He was appointed as the Minister of I.C.T from January
2001 to September 2005.
09. Dr.
Mohammad Soleimani: He was the Minister of I.C.T from September 2005 to
September 2009.
10. Dr.
Reza Taghipour : Form September 2009 to march2012
11. Dr.
Mohammad Hassan Nami : He was the Minister of I.C.T form march212 to September
2012
12. Dr.
Mahmmoud vaezi : He was the Minister of I.C.T form September212 to September
2017
13. Mohammad
Javad Azari Jahromi : Form September2016 to September 2021
14. Essa
Zarepour : Form September2021 to September 2023
14. Dr.
Seyed Sattar Hashemi : He is Minister
of ICT