Political Leaders: Iran

Leaders of Iran
(Islamic Republic of Iran)

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Active names link to their correspondant biography at the CIDOB website.

Heads of State

Emperor (Shah) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 16 Sep 1941 - 11 Feb 1979 (+1980) [picture] [picture] [picture] Leader of the Revolution (Rahbar-e Enqelab) and acclaimed Shi'a Imam Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini 5 Feb 1979 - 4 Feb 1980 (+1989) [picture] President of the Republic Abolhasan Bani-Sadr 4 Feb 1980 - 22 Jun 1981 [picture] Interim Presidential Commission Mohammad Ali Rajai [picture] (+30 Aug 1981)a Hodjatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani [picture] Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hoseyn Beheshti [picture] (+28 Jun 1981)a Ayatollah Sayyed Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardabili (from 29 Jun 1981) President of the Republic Mohammad Ali Rajai 2 Aug 1981 - 30 Aug 1981 (+)a [picture] Interim Presidential Commission Hodjatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani [picture] Ayatollah Sayyed Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardabili Hodjatoleslam Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani (from 2 Sep 1981) Presidents of the Republic Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Ali Hoseyn Khamenei 13 Oct 1981 - 17 Aug 1989 [picture] (Ayatollah on 4 Jun 1989) Hodjatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 17 Aug 1989 - 3 Aug 1997 [picture] Hodjatoleslam Sayyed Mohammad Khatami 3 Aug 1997 - 3 Aug 2005 [picture] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 3 Aug 2005 - [picture]

Leaders (Rahbar) of the Islamic Republic

Ayatollah Sayyed 
 Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini     1 Jan 1980 -  3 Jun 1989 (+)    [picture]
Ayatollah Sayyed 
 Mohammad Ali Hoseyn Khamenei  4 Jun 1989 -                    [picture]

Prime ministers

Mirza Ebrahim Hakimi         13 May 1945 -  6 Jun 1945 (+1959) [picture]
Moshen Sadr                   6 Jun 1945 - 30 Oct 1945 (+1962)           (acting)
Mirza Ebrahim Hakimi         30 Oct 1945 - 28 Jan 1946 (+1959) [picture] 
Ahmad Qawan as-Sultaneh      28 Jan 1946 - 18 Dec 1947 (+1956) 
Sardar Fakher Hekmat         18 Dec 1947 - 29 Dec 1947 
Mirza Ebrahim Hakimi         29 Dec 1947 - 13 Jun 1948 (+1959) [picture]
Abdol Hoseyn Hajir           13 Jun 1948 -  9 Nov 1948 (+1949)
Mohammad Said Maraghei        9 Nov 1948 - 23 Mar 1950 (+1973)
Hasan Ali Mansur             23 Mar 1950 - 26 Jun 1950 (+1965)a
Mohammad Ali Razmara         26 Jun 1950 -  7 Mar 1951 (+)a    [picture] military
Hoseyn Ala                   12 Mar 1951 - 30 Apr 1951 (+1964) 
Mohammad Mosadeq             30 Apr 1951 - 17 Jul 1952 (+1967) [picture]
Ahmad Qawan as-Sultaneh      17 Jul 1952 - 22 Jul 1952 (+1956)
Mohammad Mosadeq             22 Jul 1952 - 19 Aug 1953 (+1967) [picture]
Mohammad Fazlollah Zahedi    19 Aug 1953 -  7 Apr 1955 (+1963) [picture] military
Hoseyn Ala                    7 Apr 1955 -  3 Apr 1957 (+1964)    
Manuchehr Ekbal               3 Apr 1957 - 31 Aug 1960 (+1977)
Jaafar Sharif-Emani          31 Aug 1960 -  5 May 1961 (+1998) [picture]
Ali Amini                     5 May 1961 - 19 Jul 1962 (+1992) [picture]
Asadullah Alam               19 Jul 1962 -  7 Mar 1964 (+1978)
Hasan Ali Mansur              7 Mar 1964 - 26 Jan 1965 (+)a
Amir Abbas Hoveyda           26 Jan 1965 -  7 Aug 1977 (+1979)e[picture]
Jamshid Amouzegar             7 Aug 1977 - 27 Aug 1978
Jaafar Sharif-Emani          27 Aug 1978 -  6 Nov 1978 (+1998) [picture]
Gholamreza Azhari             6 Nov 1978 -  4 Jan 1979 (+2001) [picture] military
Shahpur Bakhtiar              4 Jan 1979 -  5 Feb 1979 (+1991)a[picture]
Mehdi Bazargan                5 Feb 1979 -  6 Nov 1979 (+1995) [picture]
Mohammad Ali Rajai           12 Aug 1980 -  4 Aug 1981 (+1981)a[picture]
Mohammad Javad Bahonar        4 Aug 1981 - 30 Aug 1981 (+)a
Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani    2 Sep 1981 - 29 Oct 1981 
Mir Hoseyn Mousavi           29 Oct 1981  - 3 Aug 1989

Speakers of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis-e Shora-ye Eslami)

Hodjatoleslam 
 Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 1980-1989         [picture]
Hodjatoleslam 
 Mehdi Karroubi               1989-1992         [picture]
Hodjatoleslam 
 Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri        1992-2000         [picture]
Hodjatoleslam 
 Mehdi Karroubi               2000-2004         [picture]
Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel        2004-             [picture]

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Amir Aslan Afshar-Qasemlu     1978-1979
Ahmad Mirfendereski           1979      (+2005)
Karim Sanjabi                 1979      (+1995) [picture]
Ahmad Salamatian              1979                        (acting)
Mehdi Bazargan                1979      (+1995) [picture] (acting)
Ebrahim Yazdi                 1979
Abolhasan Bani-Sadr           1979              [picture] (acting)       
Sadeq Ghotbzadeh              1979-1980 (+1982)e[picture]
Mohammad Karim Khodapanahi    1980-1981
Mir Hoseyn Mousavi            1981
Mohammad Ali Rajai            1981      (+1981) [picture]
Ali Akbar Velayati            1981-1997         [picture]
Kamal Kharrazi                1997-2005         [picture]
Manouchehr Mottaki            2005-             [picture]

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