List of members in the Fifth Term of the Council of Experts
The List of members from the fifth term of the Assembly of Experts. (Persian: فهرست نمایندگان دوره پنجم مجلس خبرگان رهبری, romanized: Fehreste nâmâyandegân dore panjom majles-e khobregân-e rahbari) consists of names of the members during the fifth and current term of the Assembly of Experts from 2016 to 2024. Elections for the Assembly of Experts occurs every 8 years.[1][2][3]
"Assembly of experts (of the Leadership)", or the "Council of Experts" is the deliberative body empowered to appoint and dismiss the Supreme Leader of Iran;[4][5] and Seyyed Ali Khamenei is the current Supreme Leader of Iran.
The elections took place on 26 February 2016, with the Inauguration occurring on 24 May 2016.[6]
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Members
The list is ordered Alphabetically.
Members with * next to their name, indicates they died while in office.
- Alborz
- Mohsen Kazeroni [fa]
- Mohammad-Mahdi Mirbagheri[7]
- Ardabil
- Seyed Fakhreddin Mousavi[8] * (18 September 2021)
- Seyed Hassan Ameli
- Bushehr
- Seyed Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
- Alireza Eslamian [fa]
- East Azerbaijan
- Ali Malakouti
- Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi
- Mohammad Feyz Sarabi * (11 April 2022)
- Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi
- Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari * (17 November 2021)
- Ahmad Beheshti
- Ali Akbar Kalantari [fa]
- Assad-Allah Imani * (7 May 2018)
- Lotfollah Dezhkam (Replaced Assad-Allah Imani in midterm election Feb 2020) [1]
- Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
- Seyed Mohammad Faghie * (22 March 2022)
- Ahmad Parvaei Rik [fa] [9]
- Reza Ramezani Gilani[10]
- Seyed Ali Hosseini Ashkevari [fa] [11]
- Zaynolabideen Ghorbani
- Seyed Abdol Hadi Hosseini Shahroudi [fa]
- Seyed Kazem Nourmofidi
- Ghiaseddin Taha Mohammadi [fa]
- Seyed Mostafa Mousavi Faraz
- Seyed Ruhollah Sadr Al-Sadati [fa] [12]
- Seyed Mohsen Saeedi Golpaygani [fa]
- Abdol Mohammad Abdolahi [fa]
- Abdul-Nabi Namazi * (28 January 2024)
- Morteza Moghtadai
- Seyed Abolhasan Mahdavi [fa]
- Seyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
- Ahmad Khatami
- Aman-Allah Alimoradi [fa]
- Mohammad Bahrami Khoshkar [fa] [13]
- Aman Narimani [fa]
- Mohammad Mohammadi Araghi [fa]
- Abbas Ka'bi
- Abdul Karim Farhani[14]
- Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi Shahroudi [fa]
- Mohsen Heidari Alekasir
- Seyed Ali Shafiei[15]
- Seyed Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
- Seyed Sharaf Aldin Malek Hosseini [fa]
- Faegh Rostami [fa]
- Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Shahroudi [fa]
- Ahmad Moballeghi
- Hashem Niazi [fa]
- Ali Moalemi [fa]
- Norallah Tabresi [fa] * (8 February 2020) [16]
- Sadeq Larijani[17]
- Seyed Rahim Tavakol [fa]
- Seyed Sadegh Pishnamazi - (سید صادق پیشنمازی) (Replaced Norallah Tabresi in second midterm election in June 2021)
- Gholamreza Fayazi [fa] (Replaced Habiollah Mehman Navaz in midterm election Feb 2020)
- Habibollah Mehman Navaz [fa] * (22 April 2018) [18]
- Ali Eslami (cleric) [fa]
- Majid Talkhabi [fa]
- Mohammad Momen * (21 February 2019)
- Mohammad Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad Momen in midterm elections Feb 2020) * (9 December 2020)
- Seyed Mohammad Saeedi (Replaced Mohammad Yazdi in second midterm elections in June 2021)
- Hassan Alemi [fa] [19]
- Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei[20]
- Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (Replaced Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi in midterm election Feb 2020) * (1 January 2021)
- Seyed Ahmad Alamolhoda
- Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani
- Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi * (24 December 2018)
- Seyed Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi in the second midterm elections in June 2021)
- Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
- Abbas-Ali Soleimani * (26 April 2023)
- Ali Ahmad Salami [fa]
- Abbas Ali Akhtari (Replaced Nasrallah Shah Abadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020) * (31 October 2022)
- Alireza Arafi (Replaced Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani in second midterm elections in June 2021)[21]
- Ahmad Daneshzadeh Momen - (احمد دانشزاده مؤمن) (Replaced Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri in second midterm elections in June 2021)
- Ahmad Jannati[22]
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani * (8 January 2017)
- Ali Momen Poor [fa] (Replaced Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in midterm elections in Feb 2020)
- Ali Movahedi-Kermani
- Ebrahim Amini * (24 April 2020)
- Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam (Replaced Seyed Abolfazel Mir Mohammadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020)
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
- Hassan Rouhani
- Hossein Ali Saadi [fa] (Replaced Ebrahim Amini in second midterm elections in June 2021)
- Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri * (18 August 2020)
- Mohammed Emami-Kashani[23] * (2 March 2024)
- Mohammad Hassan Zali [fa] [24]
- Mohammad Reyshahri * (21 March 2022)
- Mohsen Esmaeili (First non-Mujtahid to be elected in Assembly of Experts)
- Mohsen Qomi
- Nasrallah Shah Abadi * (12 March 2018)
- Seyed Abolfazel Mir Mohammadi [fa] * (24 November 2019)
- Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani * (16 March 2020)
- Seyed Mahmoud Alavi
- Mohammad Haji Abolqasem Doulabi [fa]
See also
- List of chairmen of the Assembly of Experts
- 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election
- Results of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election
- List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts
- List of members in the Second Term of the Council of Experts
- List of members in the Third Term of the Council of Experts
- List of members in the Fourth Term of the Council of Experts
- List of members in the Sixth Term of the Council of Experts
References
- ^ a b "List of members of Experts Assembly". tabnakmazandaran.ir. 25 May 2020.
- ^ (List/table of) "Assembly of Experts" elections results isna.ir
- ^ "2016 Assembly of Experts Election | Iran Data Portal". Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ^ Article 107 of the Constitution of Iran
- ^ Article 111 of the Constitution of Iran
- ^ "آغاز دوره پنجم مجلس خبرگان رهبری؛ روز اول چطور گذشت". BBC News فارسی (in Persian). 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ^ Seyyed Mohammad-Mahdi Mir Baqeri ijtihadnet.ir
- ^ Fakhraddin Mousavi Naneh Karani hawzah.net
- ^ Ahmad Parvaei Rik rasekhoon.net
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- ^ Seyyed Ruhollah Sadr Al-Sadati mojnews.com
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- ^ Abdul Karim Farhani majlesekhobregan.ir
- ^ Shafiei, Seyyed Ali majleskhobregan.ir
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- ^ Sadeq Larijani tasnimnews.com
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- ^ Hassan Alemi hawzah.net
- ^ Abde-Khodaei, Mohammad-Hadi majlesekhobregan.ir
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- ^ Jannati, Ahmad shora-gc.ir
- ^ Mohammed Emami-Kashani tasnimnews.com
- ^ Mohammad-Hassan Zali tasnimnews.com
- ^ Javad Mojtahed Shabestari irib.ir