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Council members in each city or village are elected by direct public vote to a 4-year term. [ 2 ] According to article 7 of the Iranian Constitution , these local councils together with the Majlis (Parliament) are "decision-making and administrative organs of the State".
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 ...
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.
It was a move to address the importance of the local councils raised by the revolutionaries [1] and to replace the councils with those existing since the Pahlavi dynasty. [2] Kian Tajbakhsh argues that the councils were put on hold on fears of separatist aspirations, mainly because of eruptions of armed conflict in the provinces amidst Iran ...
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 ...
2 Educational councils. 3 References. ... This article contains the results of the 1972 Iranian local elections. County councils ... New Iran Party People's Party ...
In Iran, 20 percent of the women have jobs or are looking for them, reports William Yong in The New York Times. That ability to be self-supporting is turning the conservative Iranian society on ...
Government by city in Iran (2 C) C. City councils in Iran (6 P) L. Local elections in Iran (1 C, 10 P)