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The Islamic Councils (Persian: شوراهای اسلامی), formerly known as the Provincial Societies (Persian: انجمنهای ایالتی و ولایتی, romanized: anjoman-ha-ye ayalati va velayati) [1] are local councils which are elected by public vote in all cities and villages throughout Iran. Council members in each city or ...
The Iranian City and Village Councils election of 2006 took place on December 15, 2006. People elected representatives for City and Village Councils , who in their turn elected the mayors. The elections happened on the same day as the election for the Assembly of Experts .
The Iranian local elections took place on 14 June 2013 to elected members of the fourth council of the City and Village Councils of Iran. [2] This election was held by a general election with the presidential election. The original date of the election was in June 2010 but Parliament of Iran voted to increase age of the councils from 4 to 7 ...
The second [1] local elections in Iran, and the first to elect the members of provincial and township councils (Anjoman), were held in September 1970. [2] 960 seats for 150 councils were up for election. [2]
Iran elects on a national level a head of government (the president), a legislature (the Majlis), and an "Assembly of Experts" (which elects the Supreme Leader). City and Village Council elections are also held every four years throughout the entire country. The president is elected for a four-year term by the citizens.
There has been a controversy around the reelection of Sepanta Niknam, a Zoroastrian municipal councillor in Yazd, as there was no clear legislation on the matter."On April 15, about one month before Iran’s local and presidential elections", Ahmad Jannati, head of the Guardian Council, had "issued a directive demanding that non-Muslims be disqualified from running in the then-upcoming city ...
Since the Iranian Revolution, the Parliament of Iran has been led by six chairmen. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani served as the inaugural chairman from 1980 to 1989. Subsequently, Mehdi Karroubi held the position in two separate terms (1989–1992 and 2000–2004), followed by Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri (1992–2000), Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (2004–2008 ...
Iranian City and Village Councils elections, 2003 took place in February 2003, the second time local elections for city and village councils had taken place since being introduced in 1999, and 905 city and 34,205 village councils were up for election.