List of mayors of Tabriz

Mayor of Tabriz
Incumbent
Yaghoub Houshyar
since April 5, 2022
ResidenceSaat Hall
AppointerCity Council
Term lengthFour years
Inaugural holderGhassem Khan Vali, Sardar Homayoun
Formation1908
Websitehttp://www.tabriz.ir

Tabriz is a city authority lies with the mayor, who is elected by a municipal board. The municipal board (City Council) is periodically elected by the city residents. Saat Hall is used as the municipal central office or city hall and municipality meeting take part there. Municipality history in Iran begins in Tabriz from 1908 when Sardar Homayun Vali Qaem selected as the first mayor in Tabriz. Here is the list of mayors of the city from the beginning of municipality in Tabriz (Geri gory Calendar, Iranian Calendar), many of which are notable singers from the 1980s:

Mayors appointed

  • Ghassem Khan Vali, Sardar Homayoun (1908)
  • Hadj Seied Ghafar Nazemol Elalat (1908-1910)
  • Hadj Seif (1910-1911)
  • Rafee Od-Dowla (1912-1914)
  • Esmail Azaam Afkham-o Almolk (1914-1917)
  • Yahya Diba (1917)
  • Rafih Amin (1917)
  • Hadj Seif (1917-1918)
  • Ahmad Khan Mashayeki (1918-1920)
  • Mirza Bolori (1920-1925)
  • Ahmad Neysari (1925-1930)
  • Sedgh-o Alsoltan (1930)
  • Nasrollah Filsufzadeh (1930-1932)
  • Kazem Edalat (1932-1936)
  • Mohammad Ali Khan Tarbiyat (1936-1940)
  • Jalaledin Keyhan (1940-1944)
  • Hosein-qoli Jalili (1944-1948)
  • Alamir Mir Mostefa (1948-1956)
  • Mahmud Khan Ghaffari (1956-1960)
  • Morteza Amin (1960-1970)
  • Abulghasem Jahanghiri (1970)
  • Abdol Hamid Hakimi (1970)
  • Mohammad Hadi (1970)
  • Abdollah Sarreshtehdar (1970)
  • Aliasghar Khan Etesam (1970-1972)
  • Esmail Khan Bahadori (1972-1973)
  • Golamreza Elhami (1973-1974)
  • Eqbal Azar (1974)
  • Atash Bayat Maku (1974-1976)
  • Abdolali Shahid
  • Hamid Varasteh (1976-1980)
  • Hasan Shahidi (1980)
  • Majid Eqtesadkhah (1980)
  • Mohammad-sadeq Pashmineh (1980-1982)
  • Esmail Qadari (1982-1984)
  • Mir-vali Mousavi (1984)
  • Mosen Ezati (1984)
  • Mir Taher Mousavi (1984-1986)
  • Feridoun Darvishzadeh (1986-1996)
  • Mohammad Ashraf-nia (1996-1998)
  • Ebadollah Fathollahi (1998)

Mayors elected by City Council

# Name Term start Term end
52 Hossein Farhangpour 1998 2001
53 Ehtesham Hajipour 2001 2006
54 Alireza Navin 2006 2013
(Acting) Hossein Akbari 2013 2013
55 Sadegh Najafi-Khazarlou 2013 2017
56 Iraj Shahin-Baher 2017 2021
(Acting) Mozaffar Soleymani 2021 2021
57 Abbas Ranjbar 2021 2022
58 Yaghoub Houshyar 2022 present

See also

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