Tabriz

Tabriz

Tabriz is the fourth largest city and one of the historical capitals of Iran and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters at the junction of the Quri River and Aji River, it was the second largest city in Iran until the late 1960s, one of its former...

 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

Saat Tower

Sa'at Tower also known as Tabriz Municipality Palace is the head office of the municipal government of Tabriz, the capital of East Azarbaijan Province, Iran. The Municipality was built in 1934 as the Tabriz municipal central office. After World War II it was used by the Azerbaijan Democrat Party...

 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 by Ministers of Interior

• Sardar Homayun Vali Qasem (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 (1920-1923)

Mayors appointed by Governors

• Mirza Bolori (1923-192%)
• 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)
• 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	Image	Term start	Term end	Political Party
52	Hossein Farhangpour		1998	2001	Independent
53	Ehtesham Hajipour		2001	2006	Islamic Society of Engineers Islamic Society of Engineers The Islamic Society of Engineers or ISE, is a political organization in Iran, a member of the conservative Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran....
54	Alireza Navin Alireza Navin Alireza Navin is the current Mayor of Tabriz, Iran. He was elected as 54th Mayor of Tabriz on 15 December 2005 by City Council and was inaugurated as mayor on 1 January 2006 in Saat City Hall. He is graduated from Tehran University in management....		2006	Incumbent	Islamic Iran Participation Front Islamic Iran Participation Front The Islamic Iran Participation Front is a reformist political party in Iran...

See also

• Tabriz
  Tabriz
  Tabriz is the fourth largest city and one of the historical capitals of Iran and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters at the junction of the Quri River and Aji River, it was the second largest city in Iran until the late 1960s, one of its former...
  
  
• Politics of Tehran
  Tabriz
  Tabriz is the fourth largest city and one of the historical capitals of Iran and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters at the junction of the Quri River and Aji River, it was the second largest city in Iran until the late 1960s, one of its former...
  
  
• List of mayors of Tehran
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