List of mayors of Tehran

The Mayor of Tehran is an elected politician who, along with the City Council of 21 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Tehran. Since 2 September 2021, Alireza Zakani is the mayor of Tehran. Previously, the position was held by Pirouz Hanachi, who held office for three years.

Mayor of Tehran
Incumbent Alireza Zakani since 2 September 2021
Residence	City Park, Tehran
Appointer	City Council
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	Khalil Khan Saghafi
Formation	1908
Website	Official website

List

Pre-1979

Mayors appointed by Interior Minister

Name	Image	Term start	Term end
Khalil-Khan Saghafi Alam-Oddowleh		1908	1910
Mirza Abbaskhan Mohandes Bashi		1910	1913
Ebrahim-Khan Yomn-Olsaltaneh Monaghah [1]		1914	1921
Gaspar Ipgian		1921	1923
Karim Buzarjomehri		1923[1]	1934
Gholi Hooshmand [1]		1934	1938
Ghasem Soor-Esrafil [1]		1938	1940
Ali Asghar Foruzan [1]		1940	1941
Mostafa Gholi Ram [1]		1941	1941
Mohammad Sajjadi [1]		1941	1942
Mehdi Emadolsaltaneh [1]		1942	1943
Fazlollah Bahrami [1]		1942	1943
Abbasgholi Golshaeeyan[1]		1943	1944
Gholam-Hossein Ebtehaj [1]		1944	1945
Mahmood Nariman [1]		1945	1945
Mehdi Mashayekhi [1]		1945	1947
Mohammad Khalatbari [1]		1947	1947
Hesamedin Dolatabadi [1]		1947	1949
Mohammad Mehran[1]		1949	1950
Mehdi Namdar [1]		1950	1951
Arsalan Khalatbari[1]		1951	1951
Mohammad Mehran [1]		1951	1952
Nosratollah Amini[1]	1952	1953
Mohsen Nasr [1]		1953	1953
Mohammad-Ali Saffari[1]		1954	1954
Gholam-Hossein Ebtehaj [1]		1954	1955
Nosratollah Montasser [1]		1955	1956
Mahmoud Davaloo [1]		1956	1957
Mousa Maham [1]		1957	1959
Nasser Zolfaghari[1]		1959	1960
Fathollah Forood [1]		1960	1961
Mohsen Nasr [1]		1961	1962
Ahmad Nafisi[1]		1962	1963
Ali Akbar Tavana [1]		1963	1963
Ziaeddin Shademan[1]		1963	1965
Mohandes Taghi Sarlak [1]		1965	1967
Mohammad-Ali Saffari [1]		1967	1967
Manouchehr Pirooz [1]		1967	1968

Mayors elected by City Association

No.		Portrait	Name	Term in office		Affiliation[2]	Appointer
	1		Javad Shahrestani	3 November 1968	1 October 1969	New Iran Party	1
	2		Gholamreza Nikpey	1 October 1969	23 August 1977	New Iran Party (1969–1975)Resurgence Party (1975–1978)	1 2 3 4 5
	(1)		Javad Shahrestani	23 August 1977	11 February 1979	Resurgence Party	6

Post-1979

Mayors appointed by Interior Minister

No.		Portrait	Name	Term in office		Affiliation[2]	Appointer
	1		Mohammad Tavasoli	26 February 1979	5 January 1981	Freedom Movement	Mehdi Bazargan
	Acting		Reza Zavare'i	5 January 1981	14 January 1981	Islamic Coalition	Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
	2		Kamaleddin Nikravesh	14 January 1981[3]	7 September 1981		Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani[3]
	3		Gholam-Hossein Deljou	7 September 1981	14 October 1982		Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
	4		Mohammad-Kazem Sufyan	14 October 1982[4]	24 August 1983		Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri[4]
	Acting		Hossein Bonakdar	24 August 1983[5]	January 1984		Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri[5]
	5		Mohammad Nabi Habibi	January 1984[6]	December 1987		Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri[6]
	Acting		Morteza Tabatabaei	December 1987[7]	January 1990	—	Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour[7]
	6		Gholamhossein Karbaschi	January 1990	April 1998	Executives of Construction (since 1996)	Abdollah Nouri

Mayors elected by City Council

No.		Portrait	Name	Term in office		Affiliation	Term
	1		Morteza Alviri	1 June 1999[8]	19 February 2002 (Resigned 13 February)[9]	Executives of Construction	1st
	Acting		Mohammad Haghani	19 February 2002[10]	4 March 2002	—
	2		Mohammad-Hassan Malekmadani	4 March 2002[11] (Designated 25 February)[10]	20 January 2003	Executives of Construction
	Acting		Mohammad-Hossein Moghimi	20 January 2003[12]	3 May 2003		—
	3		Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	20 May 2003[13] (Designated 3 May)[14]	28 June 2005[15]	Alliance of Builders	2nd
	Acting		Ali Saeedlou	28 June 2005[15] (Designated 26 June)[16]	4 September 2005
	4		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf	14 September 2005[17] (Designated 4 September)[18]	23 August 2017	—
						Progress and Justice Population	3rd
							4th
	Acting		Mostafa Salimi	27 August 2017[19]		—	5th
	5		Mohammad-Ali Najafi	27 August 2017[20] (Designated 10 August)[21]	10 April 2018 (Resigned 14 March)	Executives of Construction
	Acting		Samiollah Hosseini Makarem	10 April 2018	16 May 2018	—
	6		Mohammad-Ali Afshani	16 May 2018 (Designated 13 May)[22]	17 November 2018	National Trust Party
	Acting		Pirouz Hanachi	18 November 2018 (Designated 13 November)	28 November 2018	Union of People Party
	7			28 November 2018	8 August 2021
	Acting		Alireza Javid	8 August 2021	2 September 2021	—	6th
	8		Alireza Zakani	2 September 2021 (Designated 8 August)	Incumbent	Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution

See also

• List of mayors of Shiraz
• List of mayors of Tabriz
• List of members of City Council of Tehran
• Politics of Tehran
• Timeline of Tehran