● Home  

● Random  

● Nearby  



● Log in  



● Settings  



● Donate  



● About Wikipedia  

● Disclaimers  



Wikipedia





Islamic City Council of Tehran





● Article  
● Talk  


● Language  

● Watch  

● Edit  





"Tehran City Council" redirects here. For the former institution, see Tehran City Council (1968–1979).

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.

Islamic City Council of Tehran
Local councilofGreater Tehran
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Unicameral

Term limits

4 years[1]
History
Founded29 April 1999; 25 years ago (1999-04-29)[1]
Preceded byAnjoman-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
Seats21(Since 2017)
  • 15(1999–2013)
  • 31(2013–2017)
    • Committees

    List

    • Planning and Budget
    • Health and Urban Services
    • Transportation and Civil
    • Sociocultural
    • Supervision and Legal Affairs
    • Urban Planning and Architecture
    AuthorityTehran, Rey, Tajrish
    Elections

    Voting system

    		Plurality-at-large voting

    First election

    		26 February 1999

    Last election

    		18 June 2021
    Meeting place
    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).

    History

    edit
    See also: Tehran City Council (1968–1979)

    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]

    Members

    edit

    Previous members

    edit
    Main article: List of members of City Council of Tehran

    Chairpersons

    edit
    No. Term Chairman Affiliation Term of office Vice Chairman Affiliation Term of office
    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
      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

    Composition

    edit

    Election results

    edit
    Make-up of Tehran City Council
    Faction Seats
    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 —

    Timeline

    edit
    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[a] R —
    2000-01-03[b] R I
    2003-01-15[c] Vacant
    2 2003-04-29[a] I C
    2006-12-06[d] C
    3[e] 2007-04-29[a] R I C
    2009-02-07[f] R C
    2013-06-06[g] R I C
    2013-08-25[h] R I C
    4 2013-09-03[a] R I D[i] I C
    2013-09-08[j] R I D[i] I C
    5 2017-08-23[a] R —
    6 2021-08-05[a] C —
    1. ^ a b c d e f New term's mandate started.
  • ^ Three members –Abdollah Nouri (R), Jamileh Kadivar (R) and Mohammad Gharazi (R)– resigned and were replaced by alternative members Mohammad-Hossein Haghighi (R), Amir Abedini (I) and Mansour Razavi (R).
  • ^ The council was dissolved by the Ministry of Interior
  • ^ Rasoul Khadem who won a seat without conservative endorsement, was included in their list for 2006 election.
  • ^ Third term's mandate was extended for two additional years by the Parliament.
  • ^ Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran was officially established and Alireza Dabir who won a seat without conservative endorsement joined it.
  • ^ Hadi Saei who won a seat with reformist endorsement was not included in their list for 2013 election.
  • ^ Mohammad-Ali Najafi (R) resigned and was replaced by alternative member Abdolmoghim Nasehi (C).
  • ^ a b Ahmad Donyamali won a seat with endorsement from both reformists and conservatives. Donyamali was a member of the reformist fraction for the last three years but voted independently.
  • ^ Elaheh Rastgou who won a seat with reformist endorsement, switched her allegiance to the conservatives.

    • Mayors elected

    edit
    See also: Mayor of Tehran § Mayors elected by City Council
    # Mayor elected Votes Year Term
    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

    References

    edit
    1. ^ a b Hamid Aghabozorgy; Reza Mokhtari Malekabadi; Ahmad Moazzeni (January 2016). "604 Comparative assessing the Performance of fourth period Islamic Councils of Lenjan, and their role in improving urban management". International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (Special). ISSN 2356-5926.
  • ^ a b Vahid Vahdat Zad (2011). "Spatial Discrimination in Tehran's Modern Urban Planning 1906-1979". Journal of Planning History vol. 12 no. 1 49-62. Archived from the original on 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  • ^ a b "Iran election 'an alarm bell'". BBC. 3 March 2003. Retrieved 1 April 2017. Reformists took all 15 council seats in 1999. Conservatives have now taken 14.
  • ^ Raz Zimmt (22 December 2006). "Election Results for the Assembly of Experts and Local Councils: Preliminary Appraisal". ACIS Iran Pulse. Retrieved 1 April 2017. The results in Tehran give the list of Qalibaf's followers ("Usulgarayan") eight of the 15 seats, the reformists' four and Ahmadinejad's followers two. Another seat went to an independent candidate, close to Qalibaf.
  • ^ Ali M. Pedram (20 June 2013). "Reformists return to power in Iran's local elections". Asharq Al Awsat. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2017. Thirty-one council seats were up for grabs in Tehran, with 13 going to reformists. Although conservatives won 18 seats in the capital in total... Although the composition of Tehran's new city council appears to give conservatives a majority with 18 seats, four of these were won by previously apolitical celebrity athletes, who observers speculate may be open to changing their affiliation in the future.
  • ^ "Pro-Rohani Reformists Sweep Tehran Council Elections". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
    • edit

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islamic_City_Council_of_Tehran&oldid=1176892292"
      



    Last edited on 24 September 2023, at 17:15  





    Languages

     


    ●فارسی
      

     Wikipedia


    ●This page was last edited on 24 September 2023, at 17:15 (UTC).
    ●Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.


    ●Privacy policy
    ●About Wikipedia
    ●Disclaimers
    ●Contact Wikipedia
    ●Code of Conduct
    ●Developers
    ●Statistics
    ●Cookie statement
    ●Terms of Use
    ●Desktop