Election Office (Iran)


The Election Office is the body charged for implementation of election procedures in Iran and is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior.

List of Heads

Date appointedNameElections heldMinisterPresident
1997Mostafa Tajzadeh1998 experts
1999 councils
2000 parliament		Abdolvahed Mousavi LariMohammad Khatami
2001Morteza Moballegh2001 president
2003 councils
2004 parliament
2005 president		Abdolvahed Mousavi LariMohammad Khatami
7 October 2006Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi2006 councils/expertsMostafa PourmohammadiMahmoud Ahmadinejad
24 November 2007Alireza Afshar2008 parliamentMostafa PourmohammadiMahmoud Ahmadinejad
16 March 2009Kamran Daneshjoo2009 presidentSadegh MahsouliMahmoud Ahmadinejad
17 May 2011Sowlat Mortazavi2012 parliament
2013 president/councils		Mostafa Mohammad-NajjarMahmoud Ahmadinejad
12 April 2015Mohammad-Hossein Moghimi2016 parliament/expertsAbdolreza Rahmani FazliHassan Rouhani
30 December 2016Ali-Asghar Ahmadi2017 presidential/councilsAbdolreza Rahmani FazliHassan Rouhani