The List of members from the fourth term of the Assembly of Experts. () consists of names of the members during the fourth term of the Assembly of Experts from 2006 to 2016. Elections for the Assembly of Experts occurs every 8 years. However, for the fourth term it was 10 years because the elections that took place for the fifth term was planned for 2014 but was postponed to 2016 in order to be held alongside the 2016 Iranian legislative election.
"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 is the current supreme leader of Iran. Ali Khamenei was the Leader during this term.
The elections took place on 15 December 2006, with the Inauguration occurring on 20 February 2007.
Members The list is ordered Alphabetically.
Members with * next to their name, indicates they died while in office.
Ardabil
Hassan Ameli Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami
Bushehr
Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
East Azerbaijan
Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi (Replaced Morteza Bani Fazel) Mohammad Feyz Sarabi Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi Mohammad Vaez Mousavi Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari Morteza Bani Fazel – () * (27 May 2010)
Fars
Ahmad Beheshti Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi Assad-Allah Imani
Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
Gilan
Abbas Mahfouzi * (10 June 2015) Reza Ramezani Gilani Zaynolabideen Ghorbani
Golestan
Habibollah Taheri Gorgani – () * (29 December 2007) (Replaced Habibollah Taheri Gorgani) Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi
Hamadan
Hormozgan
Ilam
Seyed Mojtaba Taheri – ()
Isfahan
Hassan Shariati Niyasar Morteza Moghtadai
Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
Kerman
Ahmad Khatami Ali Movahedi-Kermani
Kermanshah
* (27 May 2014)
Khuzestan
Abbas Ka'bi Ali Fallahian Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
Mohsen Heidari Alekasir Seyyed Ali Shafiei
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Seyed Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini * (2 November 2012) (Replaced Seyed Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini)
Kurdistan
(Replaced Mohammad Seikh Al-Eslami) * (17 September 2009)
Lorestan
* (7 September 2014)
Markazi
Ahmad Mohseni Garakani
Mazandaran
* (31 August 2014) Sadeq Larijani
North Khorasan
Qazvin
Qom
Mohammad Momen
Razavi Khorasan
Abbas Vaez-Tabasi * (4 March 2016) Abolghasem Khazali * (16 September 2015) Ahmad Alamolhoda
(Replaced Mohammad Reza Faker) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi * (10 February 2010)
Semnan
Seyed Mohammad Shahcheraghi
Sistan and Baluchestan
Abbas-Ali Soleimani
South Khorasan
Ebrahim Raisi
Tehran
Abdul-Nabi Namazi Ahmad Jannati Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Meshkini * (30 July 2007) Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi Hassan Rouhani Mahmoud Alavi (Replaced Seyed Mohammad Hassan Marashi) Mohammad Bagher Bagheri Kani Mohammed Emami-Kashani Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani * (9 July 2014) Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (Replaced Ali Meshkini) * (21 October 2014) Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi Mohammad Yazdi
Mohsen Kharazi Mohsen Qomi Reza Ostadi * (18 August 2008)
West Azerbaijan
Asghar Dirbaz (Replaced Mir Akbar Ghaffar Gharabakh) Ali Akbar Ghoreishi Hassan Namazi * (27 March 2012)
Yazd
Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi
Zanjan
Mohammad Taghi Vaezi
See also
2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election Results of the 2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election Assembly of Experts 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 Fifth Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Sixth Term of the Council of Experts List of chairmen of the Assembly of Experts
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