The Islamic City Council of Tehran () 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.

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

The Persian Constitutional Revolution passed a law on local governance known as "Ghanoon-e Baladieh" (Persian: قانون بلدیه). 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.

After World War I, 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.

Members

As of August 2023, the council is led by Mehdi Chamran, who was re-elected as chairman, and Parviz Sorouri, who holds the position of vice chairman. Soudeh Najafi and Jafar Sharbiani were appointed as the secretaries of the council's presiding board.

Previous members

Chairpersons No. Term Portrait Chairman Affiliation Term of office Vice Chairman Affiliation Term of office11st Abdollah Nouri Combatant Clerics April 1999 — September 1999Saeed Hajjarian Participation FrontApril 1999 — February 20022 Abbas Duzduzani Participation Front September 1999 — December 19993 Rahmatollah Khosravi Forces of Imam's Line December 1999 — May 20014Mohammad AtrianfarExecutives of ConstructionMay 2001 — January 2003 Ebrahim Asgharzadeh Solidarity Party February 2002 — January 20035 2ndMehdi Chamran Alliance of BuildersApril 2003 — September 2013Hassan Bayadi Alliance of BuildersApril 2003 — September 2013 3rd64th Ahmad Masjed-Jamei Non-partisan Reformist September 2013 — September 2014Morteza Talaie Progress and Justice PopulationSeptember 2013 — August 2017(5)Mehdi Chamran Non-partisan PrinciplistSeptember 2014 — August 2017protem5th Morteza Alviri Executives of Construction May — August 2017 Ahmad Masjed-Jamei Non-partisan Reformist May — August 20177 Mohsen Hashemi Executives of Construction August 2017 — August 2021 Ebrahim Amini National Trust Party August 2017 — August 2021(5)6thMehdi Chamran Non-partisan PrinciplistAugust 2021 — Present Parviz Sorouri Society of Pathseekers August 2021 — Present

Composition Election results +Make-up of Tehran City Council Faction Seats 1999 2003 2006 2013 2017 2021 Reformists Principlists Independent Nationalist-Religious colspan=4

Timeline Date12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 11999-04-29 R colspan="16" rowspan="9" 2000-01-03 R I2003-01-15 Vacant22003-04-29I C 2006-12-06 C 32007-04-29 RI C2009-02-07 R C2013-06-06 RI C2013-08-25 RI C42013-09-03 RIDI C2013-09-08 RIDI C52017-08-23 R colspan="10" 62021-08-05 C colspan="10"

Mayors elected

#Mayor electedVotesYearTerm1Morteza Alviri 19991st2Mohammad-Hassan Malekmadani20023Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 20032nd4Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf 200520073rd20134th5Mohammad-Ali Najafi20175th6Mohammad-Ali Afshani20187Pirouz Hanachi20188Alireza Zakani20216th

See also Milad Tower

References

External links Islamic City Council of Tehran, the council's website (in Persian)