List of mayors of Tabriz

Mayor of Tabriz

Incumbent
Yaghoub Houshyar

since April 5, 2022

Residence| Saat Hall
Appointer| City Council
Term length| Four years
Inaugural holder| Ghassem Khan Vali, Sardar Homayoun
Formation| 1908
Website| http://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

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* 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

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#  | Name  | Term start  | Term end

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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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* Tabriz
* Timeline of Tabriz
* List of mayors of Tehran
* List of mayors of Shiraz

## References

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* http://www.tabrizinfo.com