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Tufan Moussavi Al Gharavi (born 21 September 1980) is an Iranian Entrepreneur.

Tufan was born in Tehran, Iran to a family of entrepreneurs, the father was head of the national banks of Iran and the mother in the telecommunication field, son of Mohammed and Zeeba, Tufan. He has one stepbrother and one sister, Zaid and Darya.

During the war between Iran - Iraq they leave country just few days before they're palace was destroyed by the Iraqi bombs, they been fugitives for years, from one country to another, thru Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia, from one hotel room to another and from one city to another for nearly 2 years, trying to reach his father's vision to reach Canada. During those years in 1985 they finally reach Italy, and decide to settle in a small city next to Portofino, where from scratch his family starts slowly to make the first moves towards what turned to be the business for the next decades to come of commerce of Persian rugs imported together with antiques and fine jewelry and paintings.

In 1989 his family decides to move to Toronto, Canada after his mother Zeeba was cured of cancer and was able to travel again, soon after they're arrival in Canada, the family splits, after the divorce Tufan see's his father for the last time on his 9th birthday in 1989 and ever since never had any news, he returns to Italy with his mother, happily married to one of her surgeons, an Iraqi doctor the has lived all his life in Italy and gives birth to his step brother Zaid.

In 1994 at early age of 14, Tufan moves back to Toronto, to his sister Darya to follow his studies and start a work experience for one of the sisters ambitious business activities.

In 1996 the return to Italy, with the perfect knowledge of the English language, he starts his own small business at age of 15 with mobile phones, buying and selling used phones and doing reparations.

In 1997 he has a serious motorcycle accident that almost brings him to death and takes him 2 years of recovery and rehabilitations.

In 1999 after some time spent in Canada again to see business opportunities guided by his sister, he got back to work in Italy, his clientele moved from single individuals to a B2B business and thanks to those numbers, he starts to work for all the major Italian telecommunication companies like TIM, Vodafone, Wind and H3G selling for them contracts for business users, and started to look at other business opportunity outside of his area of reach, he starts to "invade" the French Riviera market, selling and buying electronic goods and decides to move to France.

In 2004 he is partner in one of the biggest mobile phone accessories company in Italy but he decides to leave and look for something more adventurous and that is when he takes his first visit to Dubai the next year and trips become more and more often as he falls in love with the Arabic world bringing him back somehow to his roots and the dream of Dubai becomes reality soon as he sees the vision of the Ruler and Prime minister of Dubai coming to life.

In 2010 after almost 10 years between Italy and the French Riviera in the Cote D'Azur, Tufan leaves everything and decides to start a new chapter, like his father did long time before, and this time he moves to China to the city of Shanghai as he received several offers to manage restaurants and entertainment for some of his friend, bringing potential investors to the table and taking shares as the city of Shanghai like never before is in full expansion.

In 2010 after a short trip to Europe on the Emirates flight to Nice, during a stop over in Dubai, Tufan decides to remain in Dubai and start all over again his life, he finds work in a small real estate company in JBR.