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 appointed | Name | Elections held | Minister | President |
1997 | Mostafa Tajzadeh | 1998 experts 1999 councils 2000 parliament | Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari | Mohammad Khatami |
2001 | Morteza Moballegh | 2001 president 2003 councils 2004 parliament 2005 president | Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari | Mohammad Khatami |
7 October 2006 | Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi | 2006 councils/experts | Mostafa Pourmohammadi | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
24 November 2007 | Alireza Afshar | 2008 parliament | Mostafa Pourmohammadi | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
16 March 2009 | Kamran Daneshjoo | 2009 president | Sadegh Mahsouli | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
17 May 2011 | Sowlat Mortazavi | 2012 parliament 2013 president/councils | Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
12 April 2015 | Mohammad-Hossein Moghimi | 2016 parliament/experts | Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli | Hassan Rouhani |
30 December 2016 | Ali-Asghar Ahmadi | 2017 presidential/councils | Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli | Hassan Rouhani |