Islamic City Council of Tehran

Islamic City Council of Tehran
Islamic City Council of Tehran
Local council of Greater Tehran
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	4 years
History
Founded	29 April 1999; 25 years ago
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); 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;
Authority	Tehran, 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 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.

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

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

Previous members

Chairpersons

No.	Term	Chairman		Term of office			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
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
5	3rd	Mehdi Chamran	Alliance of Builders	April 2003 — September 2013	Hassan Bayadi	Alliance of Builders	April 2003 — September 2013
6	4th	Ahmad Masjed-Jamei	Non-partisan Reformist	September 2013 — September 2014	Morteza Talaie	Progress and Justice Population	September 2013 — August 2017
(5)	4th	Mehdi Chamran	Non-partisan Principlist	September 2014 — August 2017	Morteza Talaie	Progress and Justice Population	September 2013 — August 2017
pro tem	5th	Morteza Alviri	Executives of Construction	May — August 2017	Ahmad Masjed-Jamei	Non-partisan Reformist	May — August 2017
7	5th	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

Election results

**Make-up of Tehran City Council**
Faction	Seats
Faction	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

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																					—
^ ^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

#	Mayor elected	Votes	Year	Term
1	Morteza Alviri	15 / 15(100%)	1999	1st
2	Mohammad Hassan Malekmadani	12 / 15(80%)	2002	1st
3	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	12 / 15(80%)	2003	2nd
4	Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf	8 / 15(53%)	2005	2nd
		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

^ ^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.

External links

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

[N-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f New term's mandate started.

[8] 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).

[9] The council was dissolved by the Ministry of Interior

[10] Rasoul Khadem who won a seat without conservative endorsement, was included in their list for 2006 election.

[11] Third term's mandate was extended for two additional years by the Parliament.

[12] Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran was officially established and Alireza Dabir who won a seat without conservative endorsement joined it.

[13] Hadi Saei who won a seat with reformist endorsement was not included in their list for 2013 election.

[14] Mohammad-Ali Najafi (R) resigned and was replaced by alternative member Abdolmoghim Nasehi (C).

[D-15] 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.

[16] Elaheh Rastgou who won a seat with reformist endorsement, switched her allegiance to the conservatives.

[ijhcs-1] 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.

[sagepub-2] 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.

[BBC-3] "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.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

[6] "Pro-Rohani Reformists Sweep Tehran Council Elections". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2017.

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