The List of members from the first term of the Assembly of Experts. () consists of names of the members during the first term of the Assembly of Experts from 1982 to 1990. Elections for the Assembly of Experts occurs every 8 years.
"Assembly of experts (of the Leadership)", or the "Council of Experts" is the deliberative body empowered to appoint and dismiss the Supreme Leader of Iran;Article 107 of the Constitution of IranArticle 111 of the Constitution of Iran there has been a vacancy in the position since Seyyed Ali Khamenei's death on 28 February 2026. Ruhollah Khomeini was the supreme leader of Iran during this term.
The elections took place on 10 December 1982, with the Inauguration occurring on 14 July 1983.
Members The list is ordered Alphabetically.
Members with * next to their name, indicates they died while in office.
Bushehr
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
Ebrahim Amini
East Azerbaijan
Abdol Hossein Tabrizi Gharavi – () Hibat Allah Yektai – () Khalil Boyukzadeh Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari Moslem Malakouti Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi
Fars
Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi Assad-Allah Imani
Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
Gilan
Abbas Mahfouzi
Hamadan
Hossein Noori Hamedani
Hormozgan
Ilam
Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami * (1 January 1987)
Isfahan
Abbas Izadi * – () Jalal Al-Din Taheri
Seyed Mohammad Hosseini (Kashani) – ()
Kerman
Ali Movahedi-Kermani
Kermanshah
Mojtaba Haj Akhund – ()
Khorasan
Abbas Vaez-Tabasi Abolghasem Khazali Abolhassan Moqdasi Shirazi – () Abdul Javad Gharavian – () Ali Akbar Eslami Torabti – ()
* (8 July 1985) Mohammad Vaez-Abaei
Khuzestan
Ahmad Jannati Gholam Hossein Jami – () Hassan Hemmati – () Hossein Mohammad Mojtahedi – () Seyed Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Ghorban Ali Shahmiri – ()
Kurdistan
Seyed Ali Hosseini – ()
Lorestan
Markazi
Mohammad Fazel Lankarani Seyed Mahdi Rohani
Mazandaran
Abdollah Javadi-Amoli
Hadi Rohani Hossein Mohammadi La'ini – ()
Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi
Semnan
Mohammad Momen
Sistan and Baluchestan
Seyed Mahdi Abadi – ()
Tehran
Ahmad Azari Qomi Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Meshkini Gholamreza Rezvani Hossein Rasti Kashani Mohammad Baqer Baqeri Kani Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani Mohammed Emami-Kashani Sadegh Khalkhali Seyed Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili Seyed Ali Khamenei Seyed Hadi Khosroshahi Seyed Mohammad Baqer Asadi Khonsari – () Yousef Saanei
West Azerbaijan
Morteza Bani Fazel – () Seyed Ali Akbar Ghoreishi
Yazd
Seyed Ruhollah Khatami * (27 October 1988)
Zanjan
Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani
See also 1982 Iranian Assembly of Experts election Assembly of Experts List of members in the Second Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Third Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Fourth Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Fifth Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Sixth Term of the Council of Experts List of chairmen of the Assembly of Experts
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