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[1]
History
Founded	29 April 1999[1]
Preceded by	Anjoman-e-Shahr
New session started	23 August 2017[2]
Leadership
Chairman	Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani[2] ; since 23 August 2017
Vice Chairman	Ebrahim Amini[2] ; since 23 August 2017
1st Secretary	Bahare Arvin[2] ; since 23 August 2017
2nd Secretary	Zahra Nejadbahram[2] ; since 23 August 2017
Spokesperson	Ali E'ta[2] ; since 23 August 2017
Treasurer	Hassan Rasouli ; since 3 September 2017
Structure
Seats	21 (Since 2017); 15 (1999–2013); 31 (2013–2017);
Political groups	List of Hope (21) UIIPP (5+1); ECP (3); NTP (3); IISP (1+2); IATI (1); ILP/WH (1); IIFJO (1); OIF (1); NEDA (1); WJA (1); IIYP (1);
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	19 May 2017
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.[3]

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.[3]

Members

Members of the current council

#	Member	Bloc	Party
1	Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani	Reformist	ECP
2	Morteza Alviri	Reformist	ECP
3	Ahmad Masjed-Jamei	Reformist	N/A
4	Shahrbanoo Amani	Reformist	ECP/IISP
5	Mohammad-Javad Haghshenas	Reformist	NTP
6	Bahareh Arvin	Reformist	ex-IIPF
7	Seyyed Ebrahim Amini	Reformist	NTP
8	Afshin Habibzadeh	Reformist	ILP/WH
9	Arash Hosseini Milani	Reformist	UIIPP
10	Hassan Khalilabadi	Reformist	IATI
11	Ali E'ta	Reformist	UIIPP
12	Zahra Sadr-Azam Nouri	Reformist	UIIPP
13	Mohammad Salari	Reformist	IISP
14	Seyyed Hassan Rasouli	Reformist	OIF
15	Nahid Khodakarami	Reformist	N/A
16	Majid Farahani	Reformist	NEDA
17	Zahra Nejadbahram	Reformist	WJA
18	Seyyed Mahmoud Mirlohi	Reformist	UIIPP/IISP
19	Elham Fakhari	Reformist	IIFJO
20	Mohammad Alikhani	Reformist	IIYP
21	Bashir Nazari	Reformist	NTP

Previous members

Chairpersons

№	Term			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 — present	Ebrahim Amini	National Trust Party	August 2017 — present

Composition

Election results

Reformer

Conservative

Independent

Years

Seats

Composition

Ref

15

31

21

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[lower-alpha 1]	R															N/A
	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																					N/A
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). Ahmad Donyamali won a seat with endorsement from both reformists and consevatives. 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	1^st
2	Mohammad Hassan Malekmadani	12 / 15(80%)	2002	1^st
3	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	12 / 15(80%)	2003	2^nd
4	Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf	8 / 15(53%)	2005	2^nd
		8 / 15(53%)	2007	3^rd
		16 / 31(52%)	2013	4^th
5	Mohammad-Ali Najafi	21 / 21(100%)	2017	5^th
6	Mohammad-Ali Afshani	19 / 21(90%)	2018
7	Pirouz Hanachi	11 / 21(52%)	2018

References

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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
"Mohsen Hashemi elected as head of Tehran City Council", Mehr News Agency, 23 August 2017, retrieved 23 August 2017
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.
"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)

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[N-8] New term's mandate started.

[9] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

[D-16] Ahmad Donyamali won a seat with endorsement from both reformists and consevatives. Donyamali was a member of the reformist fraction for the last three years but voted independently.

[17] 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[MNA-2] "Mohsen Hashemi elected as head of Tehran City Council", Mehr News Agency, 23 August 2017, retrieved 23 August 2017

[sagepub-3] 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-4] "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.

[5] 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.

[6] 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.

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