List of Speakers of the Parliament of Iran
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Following is a list of Speakers of the Parliament of Iran, from Iranian Constitutional Revolution
to present. The name of the parliament of Iran since its establishment in 1906 until the Iranian Revolution
in 1979 was National Consultative Assembly. After the Revolution it was renamed Islamic Consultative Assembly (مجلس شورای اسلامی).
Iranian Constitutional Revolution
The Persian Constitutional Revolution or Iranian Constitutional Revolution took place between 1905 and 1907...
to present. The name of the parliament of Iran since its establishment in 1906 until the Iranian Revolution
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the...
in 1979 was National Consultative Assembly. After the Revolution it was renamed Islamic Consultative Assembly (مجلس شورای اسلامی).
List of Speakers
| # | Name | Entered office | Left office | Political Party | Term |
| National Consultative Assembly | |||||
| 1 | Morteza Gholi Khan Hedayat Morteza Gholi Khan Hedayat Morteza Gholi Khan, Sani-ol Douleh of the Hedayat family, son of Ali Gholi Khan , was an Iranian politician and first chairman of the Iranian parliament. He become Member of Parliament from Tehran after Persian Constitutional Revolution. He was a leader of Constitutional Revolution... |
6 October 1906 | 23 June 1907 | Constitutionalist Movement Constitutionalist Party of Iran The Constitutionalist Party of Iran is a liberal democratic party founded in 1994 and is based in exile. The party favors a constitutional monarchy in Iran but is not opposed to a republic based on referendum... |
1st |
| 2 | Mirza Mahmoud Khan | 23 June 1907 | 23 June 1908 | Constitutionalist Movement Constitutionalist Party of Iran The Constitutionalist Party of Iran is a liberal democratic party founded in 1994 and is based in exile. The party favors a constitutional monarchy in Iran but is not opposed to a republic based on referendum... |
1st |
| 3 | Mirza Esmaiel Khan | 23 June 1908 | 23 June 1910 | Justice Party Justice Party Justice Party is the name of several different political parties around the world:*Indian Justice Party*Justice Party *Justice Party *Justice Party *Justice Party *Justice Party *Justice Party... |
1st |
| 4 | Mirza Sadeq Khan Mostashar-dowle | 15 November 1910 | 6 July 1911 | Independence Movement | 2nd |
| 5 | Mirza Esmaiel Khan | 6 July 1911 | 6 July 1912 | Independence Movement | 2nd |
| 6 | Mohammad-Ali Foroughi | 6 July 1912 | 10 July 1912 | Constitutionalist Movement Constitutionalist Party of Iran The Constitutionalist Party of Iran is a liberal democratic party founded in 1994 and is based in exile. The party favors a constitutional monarchy in Iran but is not opposed to a republic based on referendum... |
2nd |
| 7 | Hossein Pirnia | 15 December 1914 | 11 October 1925 | Constitutionalist Movement Constitutionalist Party of Iran The Constitutionalist Party of Iran is a liberal democratic party founded in 1994 and is based in exile. The party favors a constitutional monarchy in Iran but is not opposed to a republic based on referendum... |
3rd, 4th, 5th |
| 8 | Mirza Hasan khan Mowstofi Mostowfi ol-Mamalek Mirza Hasan Ashtiani Mostowfi al-Mamalek was an Iranian Politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran on six separate occasions.-Early Life:... |
1 October 1925 | 11 October 1927 | E'tedalion Party E'tedalion Party E'tedalion was one of the two major political factions of the Constitutional period in Iran. This faction, which was on the Amyvn wing, pro-and anti slow changes and radical measures were Tndrvanh.... |
5th |
| 9 | Mohammad Tadayon | 11 October 1927 | 10 July 1928 | Revival Party Revival Party The Revival Party was a political party in Iran. It was reformist and was made up principally of young and educated Iranians in Europe, those who had previously supported the Democratic Party. The party with the help of Reza Khan won five seats in the National Assembly... |
6th |
| 10 | Hossein Pirnia | 10 July 1928 | 4 April 1929 | Revival Party Revival Party The Revival Party was a political party in Iran. It was reformist and was made up principally of young and educated Iranians in Europe, those who had previously supported the Democratic Party. The party with the help of Reza Khan won five seats in the National Assembly... |
6th |
| 11 | Hossein Dadgar | 4 April 1929 | 15 March 1934 | Revival Party Revival Party The Revival Party was a political party in Iran. It was reformist and was made up principally of young and educated Iranians in Europe, those who had previously supported the Democratic Party. The party with the help of Reza Khan won five seats in the National Assembly... |
7th, 8th, 9th |
| 12 | Mirza Hassan Khan Esfandiary Mirza Hassan Khan Esfandiary Mirza Hassan Khan Esfandiary also known Hassan Esfandiary was an Iranian politician and 12th chairman of the Iranian parliament. He become Member of Parliament from Tehran and Mazandaran from 1934 to 1945.He was minister in several cabinet of Iranian Prime ministers.- External links :... |
15 March 1934 | 13 November 1945 | E'tedalion Party E'tedalion Party E'tedalion was one of the two major political factions of the Constitutional period in Iran. This faction, which was on the Amyvn wing, pro-and anti slow changes and radical measures were Tndrvanh.... |
10th, 11th, 12th, 13th |
| 13 | Mohammad Sadeq Tabatabai' | 13 November 1945 | 25 March 1947 | Homeland Party Homeland Party The Homeland Party is a right-wing, nationalist and conservative, political party in Turkey. The party was founded on 2002 by Saadettin Tantan. In the last elections, the party won 0.9% of the vote and got no seats.... |
14th |
| 14 | Mohammad-Reza Hekmat Mohammad-Reza Hekmat Mohammad-Reza Hekmat was a Prime Minister of Pahlavi era Iran.He became Prime Minister of Iran in 18 December 1947 and was in office until 29 December 1947 for only 11 days.He was speaker of Parliament of Iran from 1947 to 1955 for 2 term.... |
25 March 1947 | 9 February 1955 | Democratic Party | 15th, 16th |
| 15 | Abol-Ghasem Kashani | 7 August 1952 | 12 March 1953 | National Front National Front (Iran) The National Front of Iran or Jebhe Melli is a Democratic, political opposition group founded by Mohammad Mossadegh and other secular Iranian leaders of Nationalist, Liberal, and Social-Democratic political orientation who had been educated in France in the late 1940s... |
17th |
| 16 | Hassan Emami | 9 February 1953 | 7 August 1955 | Democratic Party | 18th |
| 17 | Abdollah Moazemi | 1 June 1955 | 18 March 1959 | Nationalist Party | 18th |
| 18 | Reza Hekmat | 18 March 1959 | 6 October 1969 | New Iran Party New Iran Party Iran Novin Party or New Iran Party was an Iranian party that founded in 1964 by Hasan Ali Mansur and his friends.-History:The party was renamed the Progressive Association in 1965 in the Persian month Azar No. arose... |
18th, 19th, 20th |
| 19 | Abdollah Riazi | 6 October 1969 | 6 October 1977 | Rastakhiz Rastakhiz Rastakhiz Party was founded on March 2, 1975 by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. The party was intended as Iran's new single party, holding a monopoly on political activity in Iran, and to which all Iranians were required to belong... |
21st, 22nd |
| 20 | Javad Saeed | 6 October 1977 | 11 February 1979 | Rastakhiz Rastakhiz Rastakhiz Party was founded on March 2, 1975 by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. The party was intended as Iran's new single party, holding a monopoly on political activity in Iran, and to which all Iranians were required to belong... |
23rd, 24th |
| Islamic Consultative Assembly | |||||
| 21 | Yadollah Sahabi Yadollah Sahabi Yadollah Sahabi was a prominent Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician. A close associate of Mohammad Mosaddegh and Mehdi Bazargan, Sahabi was an active campaigner for the nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry in the 1950s. He was the father of Ezzatollah Sahabi.Sahabi studied at... |
28 June 1980 | 28 July 1980 | Freedom Movement Freedom Movement of Iran The Freedom Movement of Iran is an Iranian political organization which was founded in 1961 by Mehdi Bazargan, Mahmoud Taleghani, Yadollah Sahabi, Mostafa Chamran, Ali Shariati, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and some other political or religious figures... |
1st Iranian legislative election, 1980 Elections to the Majlis of Iran were held on March 14, 1980 and May 9, 1980. A total of 270 representatives were to be chosen.It was the first parliamentary election after Iranian Revolution.... |
| 22 | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is an influential Iranian politician and writer, who was the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until his resignation in 2011... |
28 July 1980 | 3 August 1989 | Islamic Republican Party Islamic Republican party The Islamic Republican Party was a political party in Iran, formed in mid-1979 to assist the Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini establish theocracy in Iran... |
1st Iranian legislative election, 1980 Elections to the Majlis of Iran were held on March 14, 1980 and May 9, 1980. A total of 270 representatives were to be chosen.It was the first parliamentary election after Iranian Revolution.... , 2nd Iranian legislative election, 1984 Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 15 April 1984, with a second round on 17 May. The majority of seats were won by independents, whilst the Islamic Republican Party were the only party to win seats. Voter turnout was 65.1% in the first round.... , 3rd Iranian legislative election, 1988 The third National Consultative Assembly elections after Iranian Revolution was held on April 8, 1988 and the first meeting was held on 29 May, 1988 in Parliament... |
| 23 | Mehdi Karroubi Mehdi Karroubi Mehdi Karroubi is an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party. He was Chairman of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.He is a founding... |
3 August 1989 | 3 May 1992 | Association of Combatant Clerics | 3rd Iranian legislative election, 1988 The third National Consultative Assembly elections after Iranian Revolution was held on April 8, 1988 and the first meeting was held on 29 May, 1988 in Parliament... |
| 24 | Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri | 3 May 1992 | 3 May 2000 | Combatant Clergy Association | 4th Iranian legislative election, 1992 Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 10 April 1992, with a second round on 8 May. The majority of seats were won by the Association of Combatant Clerics and its allies.-Results:... , 5th Iranian legislative election, 1996 Elections to the Majlis of Iran were held on 8 March 1996. A total of 270 representatives were to be chosen . A second round was held on 19 April 1996, which filled 103 remaining seats where no candidate gained sufficient votes to win in the first round... |
| 25 | Mehdi Karroubi Mehdi Karroubi Mehdi Karroubi is an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party. He was Chairman of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.He is a founding... |
3 May 2000 | 3 May 2004 | Association of Combatant Clerics | 6th |
| 26 | Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel | 3 May 2004 | 3 May 2008 | Isargaran Population Isargaran of Islamic Revolution Population The Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution is a legally existent, conservative Iranian political party. It is informally referred to as the Isargaran, a word which connotes altruism in Persian and is associated with other political movements. It is one of the most powerful and least... |
7th |
| 27 | Ali Larijani Ali Larijani Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian philosopher, politician and the chairman of the Iranian parliament. Larijani was the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from August 15, 2005 to October 20, 2007, appointed to the position by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,replacing Hassan Rowhani... |
3 May 2008 | Incumbent | Islamic Society of Engineers Islamic Society of Engineers The Islamic Society of Engineers or ISE, is a political organization in Iran, a member of the conservative Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran.... |
8th Iranian legislative election, 2008 Legislative elections for Majlis of Iran were held on 14 March 2008, with a second round held on 25 April 2008. Conservatives loyal to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were considered the victors of the election, at least in part because "all the most prominent" reformist candidates were disqualified... |
| Key: | Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
Conservatives | Reformists | Democrats Democracy Democracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law... |
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