List of members in the Fifth Term of the Council of Experts

The List of members from the fifth term of the Assembly of Experts. (Persian: فهرست نمایندگان دوره پنجم مجلس خبرگان رهبری, romanized: Fehreste nâmâyandegân dore panjom majles-e khobregân-e rahbari) 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.^[1][2][3]

"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;^[4][5] and Seyyed Ali Khamenei is the current Supreme Leader of Iran.

The elections took place on 26 February 2016, with the Inauguration occurring on 24 May 2016.^[6]

Members

The list is ordered Alphabetically.

Members with * next to their name, indicates they died while in office.

• Alborz

1. Mohsen Kazeroni [fa]
2. Mohammad-Mahdi Mirbagheri [fa] ^[7]

• Ardabil

1. Seyed Fakhreddin Mousavi^[8] * (18 September 2021)
2. Seyed Hassan Ameli

• Bushehr

1. Seyed Hashem Hosseini Bushehri

• Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari

1. Alireza Eslamian [fa]

• East Azerbaijan

1. Ali Malakouti
2. Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi
3. Mohammad Feyz Sarabi * (11 April 2022)
4. Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi
5. Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari * (17 November 2021)

• Fars

1. Ahmad Beheshti
2. Ali Akbar Kalantari [fa]
3. Assad-Allah Imani * (7 May 2018)
4. Lotfollah Dezhkam (Replaced Assad-Allah Imani in midterm election Feb 2020) ^[1]
5. Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
6. Seyed Mohammad Faghie * (22 March 2022)

• Gilan

1. Ahmad Parvaei Rik [fa] ^[9]
2. Reza Ramezani Gilani^[10]
3. Seyed Ali Hosseini Ashkevari [fa] ^[11]
4. Zaynolabideen Ghorbani

• Golestan

1. Seyed Abdol Hadi Hosseini Shahroudi [fa]
2. Seyed Kazem Nourmofidi

• Hamadan

1. Ghiaseddin Taha Mohammadi [fa]
2. Seyed Mostafa Mousavi Faraz

• Hormozgan

1. Seyed Ruhollah Sadr Al-Sadati [fa] ^[12]

• Ilam

1. Seyed Mohsen Saeedi Golpaygani [fa]

• Isfahan

1. Abdol Mohammad Abdolahi [fa]
2. Abdul-Nabi Namazi * (28 January 2024)
3. Morteza Moghtadai
4. Seyed Abolhasan Mahdavi [fa]
5. Seyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad

• Kerman

1. Ahmad Khatami
2. Aman-Allah Alimoradi [fa]
3. Mohammad Bahrami Khoshkar [fa] ^[13]

• Kermanshah

1. Aman Narimani [fa]
2. Mohammad Mohammadi Araghi [fa]

• Khuzestan

1. Abbas Ka'bi
2. Abdul Karim Farhani^[14]
3. Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi Shahroudi [fa]
4. Mohsen Heidari Alekasir
5. Seyed Ali Shafiei^[15]
6. Seyed Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri

• Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad

1. Seyed Sharaf Aldin Malek Hosseini [fa]

• Kurdistan

1. Faegh Rostami [fa]
2. Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Shahroudi [fa]

• Lorestan

1. Ahmad Moballeghi
2. Hashem Niazi [fa]

• Markazi

1. Ahmad Mohseni Garakani
2. Mohsen Araki

• Mazandaran

1. Ali Moalemi [fa]
2. Norallah Tabresi [fa] * (8 February 2020) ^[16]
3. Sadeq Larijani^[17]
4. Seyed Rahim Tavakol [fa]
5. Seyed Sadegh Pishnamazi - (سید صادق پیشنمازی) (Replaced Norallah Tabresi in second midterm election in June 2021)

• North Khorasan

1. Gholamreza Fayazi [fa] (Replaced Habiollah Mehman Navaz in midterm election Feb 2020)
2. Habibollah Mehman Navaz [fa] * (22 April 2018) ^[18]

• Qazvin

1. Ali Eslami (cleric) [fa]
2. Majid Talkhabi [fa]

• Qom

1. Mohammad Momen * (21 February 2019)
2. Mohammad Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad Momen in midterm elections Feb 2020) * (9 December 2020)
3. Seyed Mohammad Saeedi (Replaced Mohammad Yazdi in second midterm elections in June 2021)

• Razavi Khorasan

1. Hassan Alemi [fa] ^[19]
2. Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei^[20]
3. Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (Replaced Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi in midterm election Feb 2020) * (1 January 2021)
4. Seyed Ahmad Alamolhoda
5. Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani
6. Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi * (24 December 2018)
7. Seyed Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi in the second midterm elections in June 2021)
8. Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini

• Semnan

1. Seyed Mohammad Shahcheraghi

• Sistan and Baluchestan

1. Abbas-Ali Soleimani * (26 April 2023)
2. Ali Ahmad Salami [fa]

• South Khorasan

1. Seyed Ebrahim Raisi

• Tehran

1. Abbas Ali Akhtari (Replaced Nasrallah Shah Abadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020) * (31 October 2022)
2. Alireza Arafi (Replaced Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani in second midterm elections in June 2021)^[21]
3. Ahmad Daneshzadeh Momen - (احمد دانشزاده مؤمن) (Replaced Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri in second midterm elections in June 2021)
4. Ahmad Jannati^[22]
5. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani * (8 January 2017)
6. Ali Momen Poor [fa] (Replaced Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in midterm elections in Feb 2020)
7. Ali Movahedi-Kermani
8. Ebrahim Amini * (24 April 2020)
9. Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam (Replaced Seyed Abolfazel Mir Mohammadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020)
10. Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
11. Hassan Rouhani
12. Hossein Ali Saadi [fa] (Replaced Ebrahim Amini in second midterm elections in June 2021)
13. Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri * (18 August 2020)
14. Mohammed Emami-Kashani^[23] * (2 March 2024)
15. Mohammad Hassan Zali [fa] ^[24]
16. Mohammad Reyshahri * (21 March 2022)
17. Mohsen Esmaeili (First non-Mujtahid to be elected in Assembly of Experts)
18. Mohsen Qomi
19. Nasrallah Shah Abadi * (12 March 2018)
20. Seyed Abolfazel Mir Mohammadi [fa] * (24 November 2019)
21. Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani * (16 March 2020)
22. Seyed Mahmoud Alavi

• West Azerbaijan

1. Asghar Dirbaz
2. Javad Mojtahed Shabestari^[25]
3. Seyed Ali Akbar Ghoreishi

• Yazd

1. Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi

• Zanjan

1. Mohammad Haji Abolqasem Doulabi [fa]

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

References