Two years after the revolution, on the Eid holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, he married Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour, a cousin to both Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, who later became a minister of interior, and Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi, a future interior minister under President Ahmadinejad. They were married at Al-Javad Mosque at Haft-e Tir Square in Tehran.
