The List of members from the fifth term of the Assembly of Experts. () consists of names of the members during the fifth and current term of the Assembly of Experts from 2016 to 2024. Elections for the Assembly of Experts occurs every 8 years.(List/table of) "Assembly of Experts" elections results isna.ir
"Assembly of experts (of the Leadership)", or the "Council of Experts" is the deliberative body empowered to appoint and dismiss the Supreme Leader of Iran;Article 107 of the Constitution of IranArticle 111 of the Constitution of Iran and Seyyed Ali Khamenei was the Supreme Leader of Iran until he was Assassinated in the end of February 2026 and was replaced by his son Mojtaba more than a week later.
The elections took place on 26 February 2016, with the Inauguration occurring on 24 May 2016.
Members
The list is ordered Alphabetically.
Members with * next to their name, indicates they died while in office.
Alborz
Mahdi MirbaqiriSeyyed Mohammad-Mahdi Mir Baqeri ijtihadnet.ir
Ardabil
Seyed Fakhreddin MousaviFakhraddin Mousavi Naneh Karani hawzah.net * (18 September 2021) Hasan Amili
Bushehr
Seyed Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
East Azerbaijan
Ali Malakouti Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi Mohammad Feyz Sarabi * (11 April 2022) Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari * (17 November 2021)
Fars
Ahmad Beheshti Ali Akbar Kalantari Assad-Allah Imani * (7 May 2018) Lotfollah Dezhkam (Replaced Assad-Allah Imani in midterm election Feb 2020) Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib Seyed Mohammad Faghie * (22 March 2022)
Gilan
Ahmad Parvaei Rik rasekhoon.net Reza Ramezani GilaniRamezani, Reza hawzah.net Hosseini Ashkevari, Seyyed Ali majlesekhobregan.ir Zaynolabideen Ghorbani
Golestan
Seyed Kazem Nourmofidi
Hamadan
Seyed Mostafa Mousavi Faraz
Hormozgan
Seyyed Ruhollah Sadr Al-Sadati mojnews.com
Ilam
Isfahan
Abdul-Nabi Namazi * (28 January 2024) Morteza Moghtadai
Seyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
Kerman
Ahmad Khatami
Mohammad Bahrami Khoshkar ijtihadnet.ir
Kermanshah
Khuzestan
Abbas Ka'bi Abdul Karim FarhaniAbdul Karim Farhani majlesekhobregan.ir
Mohsen Heidari Alekasir Seyed Ali ShafieiShafiei, Seyyed Ali majleskhobregan.ir Seyed Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Kurdistan
Lorestan
Ahmad Moballeghi
Markazi
Ahmad Mohseni Garakani Mohsen Araki
Mazandaran
* (8 February 2020)A member of "assembly of Experts" (Nooraollah Tabarsi) passed away shafaqna.com Sadiq LarijaniSadeq Larijani tasnimnews.com
Seyed Sadegh Pishnamazi – () (Replaced Norallah Tabresi in second midterm election in June 2021)
North Khorasan
(Replaced Habiollah Mehman Navaz in midterm election Feb 2020) * (22 April 2018)6 vacant seats in the Assembly of Leadership Experts ana.ir Retrieved 25 May 2020
Qazvin
Qom
Mohammad Momen * (21 February 2019) Mohammad Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad Momen in midterm elections Feb 2020) * (9 December 2020) Seyed Mohammad Saeedi (Replaced Mohammad Yazdi in second midterm elections in June 2021)
Razavi Khorasan
Hassan Alemi hawzah.net Mohammad-Hadi AbdekhodaeiAbde-Khodaei, Mohammad-Hadi majlesekhobregan.ir Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (Replaced Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi in midterm election Feb 2020) * (1 January 2021) Seyed Ahmad Alamolhoda Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi * (24 December 2018) Seyed Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi in the second midterm elections in June 2021) Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
Semnan
Seyed Mohammad Shahcheraghi
Sistan and Baluchestan
Abbas-Ali Soleimani * (26 April 2023)
South Khorasan
Seyed Ebrahim Raisi
Tehran
Abbas Ali Akhtari (Replaced Nasrallah Shah Abadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020) * (31 October 2022) Alireza Arafi (Replaced Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani in second midterm elections in June 2021) Ahmad Daneshzadeh Momen – () (Replaced Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri in second midterm elections in June 2021) Ahmad JannatiJannati, Ahmad shora-gc.ir Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani * (8 January 2017) (Replaced Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in midterm elections in Feb 2020) Ali Movahedi-Kermani Ebrahim Amini * (24 April 2020) Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam (Replaced Seyed Abolfazel Mir Mohammadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020) Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi Hassan Rouhani (Replaced Ebrahim Amini in second midterm elections in June 2021) Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri * (18 August 2020) Mohammed Emami-KashaniMohammed Emami-Kashani tasnimnews.com * (2 March 2024) Mohammad-Hassan Zali tasnimnews.com Mohammad Reyshahri * (21 March 2022) Mohsen Esmaeili (First non-Mujtahid to be elected in Assembly of Experts) Mohsen Qomi Nasrallah Shah Abadi * (12 March 2018) * (24 November 2019) Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani * (16 March 2020) Seyed Mahmoud Alavi
West Azerbaijan
Asghar Dirbaz Javad Mojtahed ShabestariJavad Mojtahed Shabestari irib.ir Seyed Ali Akbar Ghoreishi
Yazd
Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi
Zanjan
See also List of chairmen of the Assembly of Experts 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election Results of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Second Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Third Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Fourth Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Sixth Term of the Council of Experts
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