Alireza Alavitabar (Persian: علیرضا علوی‌تبار‎; born 1960) is an Iranian political scientist and a leading reformist intellectual and writer. Alavitabar is a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front and was the editor of the now closed Sobh-e-Emrooz newspaper. He was of the main thinkers in the Iranian reform movement during Khatami's presidency.