Mir Rahman Rahmani (Pashto: میررحمان رحماني, Dari: میر رحمان رحمانی; born 1962) is an Afghan politician and businessman who is the current de jure Speaker of Afghanistan's House of the People (Wolesi Jirga, the House of Representatives), holding the office since June 2019, until his flight from Afghanistan in 2021. He has been a member of the Wolesi Jirga since 2010.^[1]

On 29 June 2019, he was elected as Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga, receiving 136 votes; the other candidate, Mohammad Wardak, received 96 votes.^[1][2]

In August 2020 Rahmani was exposed in the Cyprus Papers, an Al Jazeera investigation which alleged that he had bought Cypriot citizenship.^[3]

Following the fall of Kabul into the control of the Taliban, Rahmani was reported to have fled into Pakistan.^[4]

 The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on Mir Rahman Rahmani, the former speaker of Afghanistan's Parliament, and his son Ajmal Rahmani, a former Member of Parliament, on Monday (Dec 11), citing corruption charges. The sanctions also extend to 44 associated entities. According to a statement from the Treasury Department, these individuals and entities fall under the designation of Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, an extension and implementation of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. The order specifically targets individuals involved in serious human rights abuses and corruption globally. The Treasury Department revealed that the Rahmanis, through their Afghan companies, orchestrated a complex procurement corruption scheme. This scheme led to the misappropriation of millions of dollars from contracts funded by the U.S. Government to support Afghan security forces. /Reuters, AMU, and Radie Free Europe

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