List of speakers of the Parliament of Iran
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{{Infobox Political post
| post = Speaker of the Parliament
| body = the
Islamic Republic of Iran
| insignia = Islamic Parliament of Iran Seal.svg
| insigniasize =
| insigniacaption = Official Seal
| native_name =
| image = Mohammadbagher Ghalibaf in 2024 (02) (cropped).jpg
| imagesize =
| incumbent = Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
| incumbentsince = 28 May 2020
| style =
| residence = National Consultative Assembly building
| appointer = Members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
| termlength = 1 year
| formation = 6 October 1906
| succession =
| inaugural = Morteza Gholi Khan Hedayat
| website = [http://www.majlis.ir/ Official website]
}}
This article lists the speakers of the Parliament of Iran, from the Persian Constitutional Revolution to present.
List of speakers
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{{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! Portrait ! width=180|Name ! Took office ! Left office ! Party/Fraction ! Term |
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colspan="7" | National Consultative Assembly |
1
| 80px || Morteza Gholi Khan |
2
| 80px || Mahmoud Alamir |
|-
! 3
| 80px || Mirza Esmaiel Khan
{{small|(1880–1933)}} || colspan="2"| 1908 || Moderates
|-
! 4
| 80px || Mirza Sadeq Khan || 1909|| 1910 || Democrats || rowspan="4"| 2nd
|-
! 5
| 80px || Mirza Mohammad-Ali Khan
{{small|(1877–1942)}} || 1910 || 1911 || Independent
|-
! (3)
| 80px || Mirza Esmaiel Khan
{{small|(1880–1933)}} || 1911 || 1912 || Moderates
|-
! rowspan="4"| 6
| rowspan="4"| 80px || rowspan="4"| Hossein Pirnia
{{small|(1875–1948)}} || colspan="2"| 1912 || rowspan="2"| Moderates
|-
| 6 December 1914 || 13 November 1915 || 3rd
|-
| 1921 || 1923 || rowspan="2"| Independent || 4th
|-
| 1924 || 1925 || rowspan="2"| 5th
|-
! 7
| 80px || Hassan Mostofi
{{small|(1874–1932)}} || 1925 || 1926 || Revival Party
|-
! 8
| 80px || Mohammad Tadayon
{{small|(1881–1951)}} || 11 July 1926 || 13 February 1927 || Revival Party || rowspan="2"| 6th
|-
! (6)
| 80px || Hossein Pirnia
{{small|(1875–1948)}} || 1927 || 1928 || Independent
|-
! rowspan="3"| 9
| rowspan="3"| 80px || rowspan="3"| Hossein Dadgar
{{small|(1889–1971)}} || rowspan="3"| 1929 || rowspan="3"| 1935 || rowspan="3"| Independent || 7th
|-
| 8th
|-
| 9th
|-
! rowspan="4"| 10
| rowspan="4"| 80px || rowspan="4"| Hassan Esfandiary
{{small|(1867–1945)}} || rowspan="4"| 1935 || rowspan="4"| 1943 || rowspan="4"| Independent || 10th
|-
| 11th
|-
| 12th
|-
| 13th
|-
!11
| 80px || Mohammad Sadeq Tabatabai'
{{small|}} || 6 March 1944 || 12 March 1946 || National Union Party || 14th
|-
! rowspan="2"| 12
| rowspan="2"| 80px ||rowspan="2"| Reza Hekmat
{{small|(1891–1978)}} ||rowspan="2"| 25 March 1947 || rowspan="2"| 1 July 1952 || Democrat Party || 15th
|-
| Independent || 16th
|-
! 13
| 80px || Hassan Emami
{{small|(1903–1981)}} || 1 July 1952 || 6 August 1952 || Independent || rowspan="3"| 17th
|-
! 14
| 80px || Abol-Ghasem Kashani
{{small|(1882–1962)}} || 8 August 1952 || 1 July 1953 || National Front
|-
! 15
| 80px || Abdollah Moazemi
{{small|(1907–1971)}} || 1 July 1953 || 16 August 1953 || National Front
|-
! rowspan="3"| (12)
| rowspan="3"| 80px || rowspan="3"| Reza Hekmat
{{small|(1891–1978)}} || rowspan="3"| 16 August 1953 ||rowspan="3"| 5 August 1963 || rowspan="3"| Independent || 18th
|-
| 19th
|-
| 20th
|-
! rowspan="4"| 16
| rowspan="4"| 80px || rowspan="4"| Abdollah Riazi
{{small|(1907–1979)}} || rowspan="4"| 5 August 1963 || rowspan="4"| 7 October 1978 || rowspan="3"| New Iran Party || 21st
|-
| 22nd
|-
| 23rd
|-
| Resurgence Party || rowspan="2"| 24th
|-
! 17
| 80px || Javad Saeed
{{small|(1923–1979)}} || 7 October 1978 || 11 February 1979 || Resurgence Party
|-
! colspan="7" | Islamic Consultative Assembly
|-
! rowspan="3"| 1
| rowspan="3"| 109x109px|| rowspan="3" | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
{{small|(1934–2017)}} || rowspan="3"| 28 July 1980 || rowspan="3"| 3 August 1989 || rowspan="2"| Islamic Republican Party || 1st
|-
| 2nd
|-
| Combatant Clergy Association
| rowspan="2"| 3rd
|-
! 2
| 88x88px|| Mehdi Karroubi
{{small|(born 1937)}} || 3 August 1989 || 3 May 1992 || Association of Combatant Clerics
|-
! rowspan="2"| 3
| rowspan="2"| 80px || rowspan="2"| Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
{{small|(born 1944)}} || rowspan="2"| 28 May 1992 || rowspan="2"| 27 May 2000 || rowspan="2"| Combatant Clergy Association || 4th
|-
| 5th
|-
! (2)
| 88x88px|| Mehdi Karroubi
{{small|(born 1937)}} || 28 May 2000 || 27 May 2004 || Association of Combatant Clerics || 6th
|-
! 4
| 80px || Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
{{small|(born 1945)}} || 29 May 2004 || 27 May 2008 || Independent || 7th
|-
! rowspan="3"| 5
| rowspan="3"| 80px || rowspan="3"| Ali Larijani
{{small|(born 1958)}} || rowspan="3"| 28 May 2008 || rowspan="3"| 27 May 2020 || rowspan="3"| Independent || 8th
|-
| 9th
|-
| 10th
|-
! rowspan="2"| 6
| rowspan="2"| 93x93px|| rowspan="2" | Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
{{small|(born 1961)}} || rowspan="2"| 28 May 2020 || rowspan="2"| Incumbent || rowspan="2"| Progress and Justice Population || 11th
|-
| 12th
|}
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Speakers and deputies after the Revolution
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Term | Years | Session | colspan="2"|Speaker | colspan="2"|First Deputy Speaker | colspan="2"|Second Deputy Speaker | |||
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rowspan="5"|1st | rowspan="5"|1980–1984 | 1st | rowspan="11" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="11"|Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | style="background-color:#4169E1" | | Ali Akbar Parvaresh | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha |
rowspan="2"| 2nd | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="2"|Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha | style="background-color:#4169E1" | | Habibollah Asgaroladi | ||||
style="background-color:#4169E1" | | Mohammad Yazdi | |||||||
3rd | rowspan="4" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="4"|Mohammad Yazdi | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Mohammad Khamenei | ||||
4th | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha | ||||||
rowspan="4"|2nd | rowspan="4"| 1984–1988 | 1st | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Mohammad Mehdi Rabbani-Amlashi | ||||
2nd | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mehdi Karroubi | ||||||
3rd | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mehdi Karroubi | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Mohammad Yazdi | ||||
4th | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Mohammad Yazdi | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mehdi Karroubi | ||||
rowspan="5"|3rd | rowspan="5"|1988–1992 | 1st | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="2"|Mehdi Karroubi | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="2"|Hossein Hashemian | ||
rowspan="2"|2nd | ||||||||
rowspan="3" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="3"|Mehdi Karroubi | rowspan="3" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="3"|Hossein Hashemian | rowspan="3" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="3"|Asadollah Bayat Zanjani | |||
3rd | ||||||||
4th | ||||||||
rowspan="4"|4th | rowspan="4"|1992–1996 | 1st | rowspan="8" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="8"|Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri | rowspan="8" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="8"|Hassan Rouhani | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Ali Akbar Parvaresh |
2nd | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani | ||||||
3rd | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Hossein Hashemian | ||||||
4th | rowspan="5" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="5"|Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani | ||||||
rowspan="4"|5th | rowspan="4"|1996–2000 | 1st | ||||||
2nd | ||||||||
3rd | ||||||||
4th | ||||||||
rowspan="5"|6th | rowspan="5"|2000–2004 | 1st | rowspan="5" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="5"|Mehdi Karoubi | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Behzad Nabavi | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mohammad Reza Khatami |
2nd | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mohammad Reza Khatami | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mohsen Armin | ||||
3rd | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Behzad Nabavi | style="background-color: #00A693" | | Mohammad Reza Khatami | ||||
rowspan="2"| 4th | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="2"|Mohammad Reza Khatami | style="background-color:#00A693" | | Behzad Nabavi | ||||
style="background-color:#00A693" | | Ali Shakouri-Rad | |||||||
rowspan="4"|7th | rowspan="4"|2004–2008 | 1st | rowspan="4" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="4"|Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel | rowspan="4" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="4"|Mohammad-Reza Bahonar | rowspan="4" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="4"|Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard |
2nd | ||||||||
3rd | ||||||||
4th | ||||||||
rowspan="4"|8th | rowspan="4"|2008–2012 | 1st | rowspan="12" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="12"|Ali Larijani | rowspan="3" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="3"|Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="2"|Mohammad-Reza Bahonar |
2nd | ||||||||
3rd | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="2"|Shahab od-Din Sadr | ||||||
4th | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Mohammad-Reza Bahonar | ||||||
rowspan="4"|9th | rowspan="4"|2012–2016 | 1st | rowspan="4" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="4"|Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard | rowspan="4" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="4"|Mohammad-Reza Bahonar | ||
2nd | ||||||||
3rd | ||||||||
4th | ||||||||
rowspan="4"|10th | rowspan="4"|2016–2020 | 1st | rowspan="4" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="4"| Masoud Pezeshkian | rowspan="3" style="background-color: #00A693" | | rowspan="3"|Ali Motahari | ||
2nd | ||||||||
3rd | ||||||||
4th | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | Abdolreza Mesri | ||||||
rowspan="4"|11th | rowspan="4"|2020–2024 | 1st | rowspan="5" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="5"|Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf | rowspan="1" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="1"| Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi | rowspan="1" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="1"|Ali Nikzad |
2nd | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="2"|Ali Nikzad | rowspan="2" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="2"|Abdolreza Mesri | ||||
3rd | ||||||||
4th | style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="1"|Abdolreza Mesri | rowspan="1" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="1"|Mojtaba Zonnour | ||||
rowspan="1"|12th | rowspan="1"|2024– | 1st | rowspan="1" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="1"|Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee | rowspan="1" style="background-color: #4169E1" | | rowspan="1"|Ali Nikzad |
=Aging speakers=
Traditionally, after a new term of the parliament is started and the new speaker is not elected yet, by default the eldest member of the parliament becomes the temporary speaker also known as the "Aging Speaker" ({{langx|fa|رئیس سنی مجلس}}). The second-eldest member becomes his/her deputy. The two youngest members or Baby of the House take office as temporary secretaire.
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Term | Year | Aging Speaker | Deputy Speaker |
---|---|---|---|
1st
| 1980 | Yadollah Sahabi | Mehdi Bazargan | |
2nd
| 1984 | Saeed Amani | Ahmad Amirzadeh Irani | |
3rd
| 1988 | Mohammad-Hossein Chehregani | Mohammad-Hassan Nabavi | |
4th
| 1992 | Mohammad-Bagher Mahdavi Kermani | Ahmad Moradi | |
5th
| 1996 | Mahmoud Nourizadeh | Heydar Ebrahimbai-Salami | |
6th
| 2000 | rowspan="2"| Mohammad-Ali Sheikh | Ghassem Me'mari | |
7th
| 2004 | Abbas Paknejad | ||
8th
| 2008 | Mohammad Taqi Rahbar | Hossein Hashemian | |
9th
| 2012 | Alireza Marandi | Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi | |
10th
| 2016 | Abdolreza Hashemzaei | Mostafa Zolghadr | |
11th
| 2020 | Reza Taghavi | Mostafa Mir-Salim | |
12th
| 2024 | Alaeddin Boroujerdi | Hossein Ali Shahriari |
See also
References
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