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===Fourth Assembly (2007–2016)===
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{{further|Iranian Assembly of Experts election, 2006}}
[[File:Assembly of Experts.jpg|thumb|The first season in the year of 2013]]
The election for the fourth assembly took place on 15 December 2006 and the Assembly first convened on 19 February 2007. In July 2007, chairman Ayatollah Meshkini died, and [[Ayatollah Rafsanjani]] was elected to succeed him. On 8 March 2011, Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani replaced Ayatollah Rafsanjani as chairman.<ref name="mehdi2012">{{cite web |last=Khalaji |first=Mehdi |title=Supreme Succession. Who Will Lead Post-Khamenei Iran? |url=http://www.metransparent.com/IMG/pdf/mehdi_khalaji_supreme_succession.pdf |publisher=The Washington Institute |location=Washington DC |format=Policy Focus (No. 117) |date=February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416184302/http://www.metransparent.com/IMG/pdf/mehdi_khalaji_supreme_succession.pdf |archive-date=16 April 2014}}</ref> On 4 June 2014, Mahdavi Kani fell into a coma after suffering a heart attack and died on 21 October 2014. He was succeeded by [[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]] as acting chairman.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ru/contents/afp/2014/10/iran-politics-clerics.html |title=Head of Iran's top clerical body dies – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East |work=Al-Monitor |access-date=29 October 2014 |archive-date=29 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029040536/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ru/contents/afp/2014/10/iran-politics-clerics.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The term was intended to last for ten years, rather than the usual eight, due to the "election aggregation" plan of the government put in place to allow the government to run elections simultaneously for the Assembly of Experts and the Parliament, thereby economizing election administration costs.[[File:Majles Khobregan Rahbari2.JPG|thumb|Assembly of Experts' Secretariate in [[Qom]]]]