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This is a list of the presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran since the establishment of that office in 1980. The president of Iran is the highest popularly elected official in the country. The current president, Masoud Pezeshkian has been in office since 28 July 2024 after winning the 2024 Iranian presidential election.
5 February 1979: 3 December 1979 Independent . Supreme Leader of Iran (37) Ruhollah Khomeini: 1900-1989 3 December 1979: 3 June 1989: Independent . 38 Ali Khamenei: 1939–present 4 June 1989: Incumbent Independent [b].
The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: رئیسجمهور ایران, romanized: Rais Jomhure Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the supreme leader. [3]
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani becomes President of Iran, the first president to assume office under the post-reform constitution. 1994: 22 February: Homa Darabi an Iranian pediatrician and women's rights activist immolates herself in protest against compulsory hijab. 1997 3 August Mohammad Khatami replaces Rafsanjani as president.
Rights groups say hundreds of Iranians died in 2022-2023 demonstrations triggered by the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman arrested by morality police for violating the country's ...
— A timeline explores ... have been under house arrest in their home near Khamenei’s official residence in Tehran since 2011. Mousavi, 82, served as Iran’s prime minister under President Ali ...
On 2–3 December 1979, the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran was ratified by a popular referendum. In this referendum, 99.5 percent of Iranian voters approved the constitution. [14] [15] Ten years later, in the summer of 1989, Iranian voters would approve a set of amendments to the Constitution of 1979 in another referendum.
* A council consisting of the first vice president, the speaker of parliament and the head of the judiciary must arrange an election for a new president within a maximum period of 50 days.