The Ministry of Interior of the Islamic Republic of Iran is in charge of performing, supervising and reporting elections, policing, and other responsibilities related to an interior ministry.
Duties To provide and protect domestic security and establishment of peace and order across the country and coordination between intelligence, disciplinary, and military organs and protecting borders To manage police affairs To make an effort to achieve and develop political and social freedoms according to the constitution and other laws of the country and providing sustainable political and social development and promotion of public participation To protect and preserve the achievements of I.R. of Iran through public participations To provide conditions of appropriate practice of political and nongovernmental parties and formations and supervision on their activities To guide, lead and support of Islamic councils and supervision on their activities To establish desirable discipline in national divisions To coordinate and lead province governor generals to fulfill general policies and governmental plans To make policy, lead and supervise on affairs related to foreign nationals and emigrants To implement general policies of the government in order to make progress in social, economical and developmental plans To plan for elections affairs To coordinate for development of rural and urban development affairs and technical- executive guidance and support of municipalities and rural districts managers and supervision on execution of rules and regulations thereto To plan and manage to overcome crises resulted from natural disasters and unforeseen accidents To identify Iranian identities To supervise and manage affairs of regions across the country by governor generals, governors, governors of districts and rural district managers
Subsidiaries National Migration Organization
Ministers of Interior (1925–1979) Reign of Reza Shah Hossein Dadgar (December 20, 1925–June 13, 1926) Mostowfi ol-Mamalek (June 13, 1926–1926) Mahmoud Alamir (1926–February 12, 1927) (February 12, 1927–June 2, 1927) Hossein Sami'i (June 2, 1927–March 20, 1930) Ali Mansur (March 20, 1930–April 20, 1933) (April 20, 1933–September 17, 1933) Mahmoud Djam (September 17, 1933–September 30, 1937) (September 30, 1937–February 26, 1939) Ali-Asghar Hekmat (February 26, 1939–June 21, 1940) Ali Soheili (June 30, 1940–August 27, 1941) Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Javad Ameri (August 27, 1941–September 21, 1941) Amanullah Jahanbani (September 21, 1941–December 4, 1941) Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (December 4, 1941–July 7, 1942) (July 7, 1942–August 9, 1942) Bagher Kazemi (August 9, 1942–August 23, 1942) Javad Ameri (August 23, 1942–January 21, 1943) (January 21, 1943–February 5, 1943) Ali Soheili (February 5, 1943–July 10, 1943) Hossein Sami'i (July 10, 1943–September 5, 1943) Mohammad Tadayyon (September 5, 1943–March 28, 1944) Abdolhossein Hazhir (March 28, 1944–September 6, 1944) (September 6, 1944–April 17, 1945) Ebrahim Hakimi (April 17, 1945–June 6, 1945) Mohsen Sadr (June 6, 1945–October 11, 1945) (November 4, 1945–December 24, 1945) Allah-Yar Saleh (December 24, 1945–January 20, 1946) Ahmad Qavam (January 20, 1946–December 16, 1946) (December 16, 1946–June 19, 1947) (June 19, 1947–September 22, 1947) Ahmad Qavam (September 22, 1947–December 25, 1947) (December 25, 1947–March 20, 1948) Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (March 20, 1948–June 22, 1948) (June 22, 1948–September 22, 1948) Manouchehr Eghbal (September 22, 1948–February 25, 1950) Ebrahim Zand (February 25, 1950–April 25, 1950) (April 25, 1950–June 26, 1950) Ali Razmara (June 26, 1950–November 20, 1950) (November 20, 1950–February 20, 1951) (February 20, 1951–August 5, 1951) (Acting) Shamseddin Amir-Alai (August 5, 1951–November 30, 1951) Amirteymour Kalali (November 30, 1951–February 17, 1952) Allah-Yar Saleh (February 17, 1952–April 16, 1952) (April 16, 1952–June 22, 1952) Gholam Hossein Sadighi (June 22, 1952–August 19, 1953) Fazlollah Zahedi (August 19, 1953–April 5, 1955) Asadollah Alam (April 5, 1955–April 4, 1957) (April 4, 1957–August 29, 1958) Nader Batmanghelidj (September 10, 1958–June 10, 1959) Rahmatullah Atabaki (June 10, 1959–August 31, 1960) (August 31, 1960–February 20, 1961) Sadegh Amirazizi (February 20, 1961–February 18, 1963) (February 18, 1963–March 4, 1964) Javad Sadr (March 4, 1964–March 21, 1966) Abdolreza Ansari (March 21, 1966–March 21, 1967) Ataollah Khosravani (March 21, 1967–November 1, 1967) (November 1, 1967–March 21, 1971) (March 21, 1971–April 27, 1974) Jamshid Amouzegar (April 27, 1974–August 7, 1977) Asadollah Nasr Esfahani (August 7, 1977–August 28, 1978) Abbas Gharabaghi (August 28, 1978–January 6, 1979) Shapour Bakhtiar (January 6, 1979–February 11, 1979)
Ministers of Interior since 1979 No. Portrait Name Took office Left officeParty Head of government 1 Ahmad Sayyed Javadi 13 February 1979 20 June 1979 Freedom Movement of IranMehdi Bazargan 2 Hashem Sabbaghian 20 June 1979 6 November 1979 Freedom Movement of Iran3Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani10 September 19803 September 1981Combatant Clergy Association Mohammad-Ali Rajai Mohammad-Javad Bahonar 4 Kamaleddin Nikravesh 3 September 1981 15 December 1981 Islamic Coalition PartyMir-Hossein Mousavi 5 Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri 15 December 1981 28 October 1985 Combatant Clergy Association 6 Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur 28 October 1985 29 August 1989 Association of Combatant Clerics 7 Abdollah Nouri 29 August 1989 16 August 1993 Association of Combatant ClericsAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 8 Ali Mohammad Besharati 16 August 1993 20 August 1997 Independent (7) Abdollah Nouri 20 August 1997 21 June 1998 Association of Combatant ClericsMohammad Khatami 9 Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari 22 July 1998 24 August 2005 Association of Combatant Clerics 10 Mostafa Pourmohammadi 24 August 2005 15 May 2008 Combatant Clergy AssociationMahmoud Ahmadinejad 11 Ali Kordan 5 August 2008 4 November 2008 Independent 12 Sadegh Mahsouli 24 December 2008 3 September 2009 Independent 13 Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar 3 September 2009 15 August 2013 Independent 14 Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli 15 August 2013 25 August 2021 Independent Hassan Rouhani 15 Ahmad Vahidi 25 August 2021 21 August 2024 Independent Ebrahim Raisi 16 Eskandar Momeni 21 August 2024 Incumbent Independent Masoud Pezeshkian
See also
Ministry of Intelligence (Iran) Ministry of Justice (Iran)
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