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The Islamic City Council of Tehran (Persian: شورای اسلامی شهر تهران) is the directly elected council that presides over the city of Tehran, elects the mayor of Tehran in a mayor–council government system, and budgets of the Municipality of Tehran.
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Islamic City Council of Tehran | |
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Local council of Greater Tehran | |
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Type | |
Type | |
Term limits | 4 years[1] |
History | |
Founded | 29 April 1999[1] |
Preceded by | Anjoman-e-Shahr |
New session started | 5 August 2021 |
Leadership | |
Chairman | Mehdi Chamran since 5 August 2021 |
Vice Chairman | Parviz Sorouri since 5 August 2021 |
1st Secretary | Jafar Bandi Sharabiani since 5 August 2021 |
2nd Secretary | Sodeh Najafi since 5 August 2021 |
Spokesperson | Alireza Nadali since 22 August 2021 |
Treasurer | Habib Kashani since 21 September 2021 |
Structure | |
Seats | 21 (Since 2017)
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Committees | List
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Authority | Tehran, Rey, Tajrish |
Elections | |
Plurality-at-large voting | |
First election | 26 February 1999 |
Last election | 18 June 2021 |
Meeting place | |
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City Council Building Behesht Street Tehran | |
Website | |
Tehran City Council Website |
The council is composed of twenty one members elected on a plurality-at-large voting basis for four-year terms. The chairman and the deputy chairman of the council are chosen by the council at the first regular meeting in odd-numbered years.
It holds regular meetings on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 10 am (except on holidays or if decided by special resolution not to meet).
Persian Constitutional Revolution passed a law on local governance known as "Ghanoon-e Baladieh". The second and third articles of the law, on "anjoman-e baladieh", or the city council, provide a detailed outline on issues such as the role of the councils in the city, the members' qualifications, the election process, and the requirements to be entitled to vote. Baladieh, or the modern municipality in Iran was established in 1910, to cope with the growing need for the transformation of Tehran's city structures.[2]
After the First World War, Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, immediately suspended the "Ghanoon-e Baladieh" of 1907 and the decentralized and autonomous city councils were replaced by centralist/sectoralist approaches of governance and planning.[2]
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No. | Term | Chairman | Affiliation | Term of office | Vice Chairman | Affiliation | Term of office | ||||
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1 | 1st | ![]() |
Abdollah Noori | Combatant Clerics | April 1999 — September 1999 | ![]() |
Saeed Hajjarian | Participation Front | April 1999 — February 2002 | ||
2 | ![]() |
Abbas Douzdouzani | Participation Front | September 1999 — December 1999 | |||||||
3 | ![]() |
Rahmatollah Khosravi | Forces of Imam's Line | December 1999 — May 2001 | |||||||
4 | ![]() |
Mohammad Atrianfar | Executives of Construction | May 2001 — January 2003 | |||||||
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Ebrahim Asgharzadeh | Solidarity Party | February 2002 — January 2003 | ||||||||
5 | 2nd | Mehdi Chamran | Alliance of Builders | April 2003 — September 2013 | ![]() |
Hassan Bayadi | Alliance of Builders | April 2003 — September 2013 | |||
3rd | |||||||||||
6 | 4th | ![]() |
Ahmad Masjed-Jamei | Non-partisan Reformist | September 2013 — September 2014 | ![]() |
Morteza Talaie | Progress and Justice Population | September 2013 — August 2017 | ||
(5) | ![]() |
Mehdi Chamran | Non-partisan Principlist | September 2014 — August 2017 | |||||||
pro tem |
5th | ![]() |
Morteza Alviri | Executives of Construction | May — August 2017 | ![]() |
Ahmad Masjed-Jamei | Non-partisan Reformist | May — August 2017 | ||
7 | ![]() |
Mohsen Hashemi | Executives of Construction | August 2017 — August 2021 | ![]() |
Ebrahim Amini | National Trust Party | August 2017 — August 2021 | |||
(5) | 6th | ![]() |
Mehdi Chamran | Non-partisan Principlist | August 2021 — Present | ![]() |
Parviz Sorouri | Society of Pathseekers | August 2021 — Present |
Faction | Seats | |||||
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1999[3] | 2003[3] | 2006[4] | 2013[5] | 2017[6] | 2021 | |
Reformists | 15 / 15 |
0 / 15 |
4 / 15 |
13 / 31 |
21 / 21 |
0 / 21 |
Conservatives | 0 / 15 |
14 / 15 |
10 / 15 |
18 / 31 |
0 / 21 |
21 / 21 |
Independent | 0 / 15 |
1 / 15 |
1 / 15 |
2 / 31 |
0 / 21 |
0 / 21 |
Nationalist-Religious | — | 0 / 15 |
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No. | Date | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
1 | 1999-04-29[lower-alpha 1] | R | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000-01-03[lower-alpha 2] | R | I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003-01-15[lower-alpha 3] | Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | 2003-04-29[lower-alpha 1] | I | C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006-12-06[lower-alpha 4] | C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3[lower-alpha 5] | 2007-04-29[lower-alpha 1] | R | I | C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009-02-07[lower-alpha 6] | R | C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013-06-06[lower-alpha 7] | R | I | C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013-08-25[lower-alpha 8] | R | I | C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 2013-09-03[lower-alpha 1] | R | I | D[lower-alpha 9] | I | C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013-09-08[lower-alpha 10] | R | I | D[lower-alpha 9] | I | C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 2017-08-23[lower-alpha 1] | R | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 2021-08-05[lower-alpha 1] | C | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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# | Mayor elected | Votes | Year | Term |
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1 | Morteza Alviri | 15 / 15(100%) |
1999 | 1st |
2 | Mohammad Hassan Malekmadani | 12 / 15(80%) |
2002 | |
3 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 12 / 15(80%) |
2003 | 2nd |
4 | Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf | 8 / 15(53%) |
2005 | |
8 / 15(53%) |
2007 | 3rd | ||
16 / 31(52%) |
2013 | 4th | ||
5 | Mohammad-Ali Najafi | 21 / 21(100%) |
2017 | 5th |
6 | Mohammad-Ali Afshani | 19 / 21(90%) |
2018 | |
7 | Pirouz Hanachi | 11 / 21(52%) |
2018 | |
8 | Alireza Zakani | 18 / 21(86%) |
2021 | 6th |
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