Editing Assembly of Experts (section)

==Assemblies==

===First Assembly (1983–1991)===
The first elections for the Assembly of Experts of the Leadership were held in December 1982 and the Assembly first convened in 1983. 76 of the total of 83 members were elected in the first round, the rest in the second. The full list of members and election results is available on the Princeton Iran Data Portal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1982 |title=Iran Data Portal |website=Princeton.edu |access-date=2017-02-26 |archive-date=19 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219083257/http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1982/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

As a number of members died, by-elections for replacement candidates were held in April 1988.

The Assembly was chaired throughout the term by [[Ayatollah]] [[Ali Meshkini]], who chaired the Assembly also in subsequent terms until 2007.

In 1985, the Assembly chose Ayatollah [[Montazeri]] as the successor to Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah [[Khomeini]]. But on Sunday, 26 March 1989 Khomeini dismissed him in a letter: "[...]you are no longer eligible to succeed me as the legitimate leader of the state."<ref>[http://www.irvl.net/Translation%20of%20Ayatollah%20Khomeini's%20Letter%20Dismissing%20Montazeri.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306183950/http://www.irvl.net/Translation%20of%20Ayatollah%20Khomeini%27s%20Letter%20Dismissing%20Montazeri.htm|date=6 March 2007}}</ref> Following the death of Ruhollah Khomeini on 3 June 1989, the Assembly of Experts chose [[Ali Khamenei]] to be his successor as Supreme Leader in what proved to be a smooth transition.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5314.htm |title=Background Note: Iran |publisher=State.gov |date=1 February 2012 |access-date=1 June 2012 |archive-date=21 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121022127/https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5314.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Initially, a council of three members, "Ali Meshkini, [[Mousavi Ardabili]] and Ali Khamenei", were proposed for Leadership. After rejection of a Leadership Council by the assembly, and lack of votes for Grand Ayatollah [[Mohammad Reza Golpaygani|Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani]], Khamenei became the Supreme Leader by two-thirds of the votes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.khobreganrahbari.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=76 |title=خبرگان رهبری – رييس مجمع تشخيص مصلحت نظام: از مهمترين پيشرف |publisher=Khobreganrahbari.com |access-date=2012-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206014905/http://www.khobreganrahbari.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=76 |archive-date=6 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iran57.com/Rafsanjani%20T%20dar%20sal%2068%20mokhalef%20rahbarie%20fardi'%20Ilna%2016%20Azar%201385.doc |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-12-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615024327/http://www.iran57.com/Rafsanjani%20T%20dar%20sal%2068%20mokhalef%20rahbarie%20fardi%27%20Ilna%2016%20Azar%201385.doc |archive-date=15 June 2007}}</ref>

===Second Assembly (1991–1999)===
The Second Assembly was also chaired by Ayatollah Ali Meshkini. The full list of members and election results is available on the Princeton Iran Data Portal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1990 |title=Iran Data Portal |website=Princeton.edu |access-date=2017-02-26 |archive-date=19 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219082310/http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1990/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Sayed Mohammad Fagheh was one of the members from the province Neyriz Fars.

===Third Assembly (1999–2007)===
The 3rd assembly was again chaired by Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, deputied by [[Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]], and Ayatollah [[Ebrahim Amini]]. The scribes were former Minister of Intelligence [[Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi]] and [[Ahmad Khatami]]. The members according to each province were:<ref>{{cite web |author=Manou & Associates Inc. |url=http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/ASSEMBLY-OF-EXPERTS-members.html |title=Islamic Republic of Iran Members of Assembly of Experts |work=Iran online |access-date=1 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221012645/http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/ASSEMBLY-OF-EXPERTS-members.html |archive-date=21 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1998 |title=Iran Data Portal |website=Princeton.edu |access-date=2017-02-26 |archive-date=8 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108094730/http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1998/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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*[[Tehran province|Tehran]]:

# [[Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]]
# [[Ali Meshkini|Meshkini, Ali Akbar]]
# [[Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri]]
# [[Mohammad Imami Kashani]]
# [[Mohammad Yazdi]]
# [[Ahmad Jannati]]
# [[Mohammad Reza Tavassoli]]
# [[Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi]]
# [[Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi]]
# [[Majid Ansari]]
# Asadi Khansari, Agha Baqer
# [[Mohsen Kharrazi]]
# [[Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani]]
# [[Mohsen Qomi]]
# [[Reza Ostadi]]
# [[Gholam Reza Rezvani]]

*[[East Azarbaijan]]:

# Mojtahed Shabestari, Mohsen
# Seyed Reyhani, Seyed Abolfazl
# Hashemzadeh Harisi, Hashem
# Ahmadi, Ali
# Oroumian, Ali

*[[West Azarbaijan]]:

# Ghaffari Gharebagh, Mir-Akbar
# Pour-Mir Ghaffari, Seyed Mohsen
# Ghoreishi, Mir-Ali Akbar

*[[Isfahan]]:

# Yasrebi, seyed Mehdi
# [[Hossein Mazaheri|Mazaheri Tehrani, Mirza Hossein]]
# Hashemi, Seyed Esmail
# [[Morteza Moghtadai|Moqtadaie, Morteza]]
# Mahdavi, Abolhasan

*[[Ardabil province|Ardabil]]:

# Khalilzadeh, Bouck Agha ( died & Replaced By [[Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami|Seyyed Hatami, Mir Ebrahim]])
# Nourani Taqi Deizaj, Mostafa

*[[Ilam, Iran|Ilam]]:

# Mohammadi, Rahim

*[[Bushehr]]:

# [[Abdonnabi Namazi]]
{{col-3}}
*[[Chahar-Mahaal and Bakhtiari Province]]:

# Haj Amini Najaf Abadi, Ebrahim

*[[Khorasan province|Khorasan]]:

# Ebadi, Seyed Mehdi
# Khazali, Abolghasem
# [[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi|Hashemi Shahrodi, Seyed Mahmod]]
# Masomi, Ali Asqar
# Ferdosi Pour, Esmail
# Mehman Navaz, Habiboallah
# [[Abbas Vaeze Tabasi]]
# Alami, Hasan

*[[Khouzestan]]:

# Shafei, Seyed Ali
# Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad Ali
# Abbasi Fard, Mohammad Reza
# [[Ali Fallahian]]
# [[Abbas Kabi Nasab]]
# [[Mohsen Araki|Mohammadi Araghi, Mohsen]]

*[[Zanjan province|Zanjan]]:

# Mousavi, Seyed Esmail

*[[Semnan province|Semnan]]:

# Alami, Mohammad Ali

*[[Sistan va Balouchestan]]:

# Hosseyni, Seyed Mojtaba
# Madani, Mohammad Eshaq

*[[Fars province|Fars]]:

# Dastqeib, Seyed Ali Asqar
# Dastqeib, Seyed Ali Mohammad
# Beheshti, Ahmad
# Hosseyni, Seyed Mohammad Hossein
# Imani, Asadollah

*[[Qom province|Qom]]:

# Seyed Rohani, Agha Mehdi

*[[Qazvin]]:

# Mousavi Pour, Seyed Hasan
# Sheikh Mohammadi, Ali

*[[Kurdistan province (Iran)|Kurdistan]]:

# Sheikholleslami, Mohammad
# [[Abdolqader Zahedi]]
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*[[Kermanshah]]:

# Ahmadi, Zekrollah
# Zarandi, Hossein

*[[Kerman]]:

# [[Seyed Ahmad Khatami]]
# Hashemian, Mohammad
# [[Mohammad Ali Movahedi]]

*[[Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad Province|Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad]]:

# Malek Hosseyni, Seyed Keramatollah

*[[Golestan province|Golestan]]:

# Noor Mofidi, Seyed Kazem
# Taheri, Seyed Habibollah

*[[Gilan]]:

# Aminian, Mokhtar
# Mahfoozi, Abbas
# Ghorbani, Zeinolabedin
# Taskhiri, Mohammad Ali

*[[Lorestan]]:

# Taheri Khorram Abadi, Seyed Hasan
# Shahrokhi, Seyed Mohammad Taqi

*[[Markazi province|Markazi]]:

# Mohseni Garakani, Ahmad
# Mir-Mohammadi, Seyed Abolfazl

*[[Mazandaran]]:

# Jabbari, Seyed Saber(died)
# [[Sadeq Ardeshir Larijani]]
# Karimi Kalabi, Seyed Jafar
# Rohani Rad, Hadi

*[[Hormozgan]]:

# Anvari, Mirza Mohammad

*[[Hamedan]]:

# Saberi Hamedani, Ahmad
# Dabestani, Seyed Abolhasan

*[[Yazd province|Yazd]]:

# Khatam Yazdi, Abbas Agha
{{col-end}}

===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]]]]

===Fifth Assembly (2016–2024)===
{{main|2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election|List of members in the Fifth Term of the Council of Experts}}

The election of 88 members of the Fifth Assembly took place on 26 February 2016 alongside of the election for 290 members of the Iranian [[Majlis]] (parliament). Those elected will sit for a projected 8-year term.<ref name="BBC20160226">{{cite news |title=Iran election extended amid high turnout |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35666107 |access-date=26 February 2016 |publisher=BBC |date=26 February 2016 |archive-date=26 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226180116/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35666107 |url-status=live }}</ref> The new assembly was opened on 24 May 2016 and selected [[Ahmad Jannati]] as chairman of the Fifth Assembly.<ref name="AP">{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/2016/05/24/hard_line_cleric_becomes_speaker_of_assembly_of_expert/ |title=Hard-line cleric becomes speaker of Assembly of Expert |date=24 May 2016 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=24 May 2016 |archive-date=26 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526123214/http://www.salon.com/2016/05/24/hard_line_cleric_becomes_speaker_of_assembly_of_expert/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Sixth Assembly (2024–present) ===
{{main|2024 Iranian Assembly of Experts election|List of members in the Sixth Term of the Council of Experts}}
The election of 88 members of the Sixth Assembly took place on 1 March 2024 alongside of the election for 290 members of the Iranian [[Majlis]] (parliament). Conservatives dominated the assembly elections<ref>{{Cite web |last=Motamedi |first=Maziar |title=Conservatives dominate Iran's parliament, assembly elections |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/2/conservatives-dominate-irans-parliament-assembly-elections |access-date=2024-03-20 |publisher=Al Jazeera|language=en}}</ref> Those elected will sit for a projected 8-year term.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-28 |title=Assembly of Experts (Iran) {{!}} Role, Powers, Function, & Election {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Assembly-of-Experts |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en}}</ref> The new assembly was opened on 21 May 2024 and selected [[Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani]] as chairman of the Sixth Assembly.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-06 |title=The sixth term of the Assembly of Experts will be opened in June |url=https://www.mehrnews.com/news/6048431/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%B4%D8%B4%D9%85-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AD-%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%AF |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Mehr News Agency |language=fa}}</ref>