Vahid Yaminpour (born 21 January 1970) is a university lecturer, writer, media activist, and presenter. He was appointed as the Secretary of the Supreme Youth Council by presidential decree on 21 Khordad 1401 and was appointed as its Secretary in Bahman 1402 when the council was upgraded to the Supreme Council for Adolescents and Youth. Yaminpour also served as the Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Sports and Youth from Mehr 1400 to Bahman 1402.
He holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminology from Imam Sadegh University and a PhD in the same field from the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran; he began his career at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting in 2002. Yaminpour has hosted political programs such as Diroz, Emroz, Farda, Jahan-Ara, and Soraya on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. In 2006, in the ninth government, he was appointed as the secretary of the Social and Cultural Commission of the Presidential Center for Strategic Studies, and in 2009, he was the director general of social and cultural studies at the Ministry of Interior for a short period.
In 2008, Yaminpour published his first novel, “Palm and Orange,” which was reprinted forty-three times by Jamkaran Publications until August 2019. His second novel, “Apostasy,” was published in 2019 by Sooreh Mehr Publications. Yaminpour was named the 2020 Face of Revolutionary Art (an award given by a group of approximately 150 revolutionary writers and artists) for his two best-selling works (The Apostasy and The Travelogue of the Priest of Jinja). He briefly served as an advisor to the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and the Secretary of the Cultural Transformation Working Group.
His views, including calling for the execution of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, as well as his views on women, such as blaming women for rape, and using sexual metaphors and language about women, have sparked much debate and controversy.
