The List of members from the third term of the Assembly of Experts. () consists of names of the members during the third term of the Assembly of Experts from 1998 to 2006. 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 and Seyyed Ali Khamenei is the current supreme leader of Iran. Ali Khamenei was the Leader during this term.
The elections took place on 23 October 1998, with the Inauguration occurring on 22 February 1999.
Members The list is ordered Alphabetically.
Members with * next to their name, indicates they died while in office.
Ardabil
Khalil Boyukzadeh * (16 April 2001) Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami (Replaced Khalil Boyukzadeh) Mostafa Norani Ardabili – () * (30 October 2003)
Bushehr
Abdul-Nabi Namazi
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
Ebrahim Amini
East Azerbaijan
Ali Orumian Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi * (11 September 2000) Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi * (14 April 2003)
Fars
Ahmad Beheshti Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi Assad-Allah Imani Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseini Arsanjani – ()
Gilan
Abbas Mahfouzi
Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri Zaynolabideen Ghorbani
Golestan
Habibollah Taheri Gorgani – () Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi
Hamadan
Seyed Abolhasan Mousavi Dabestani – ()
Hormozgan
* (June 2001)
Ilam
Rahim Mohammadi – ()
Isfahan
Hossein Mazaheri Jalal Al-Din Taheri Morteza Moghtadai (Replaced Seyed Esmail Hashemi) Seyed Esmail Hashemi – () * (11 September 1999) * (30 September 2006)
Kerman
Ahmad Khatami Ali Movahedi-Kermani
Kermanshah
Khorasan
Abbas Vaez-Tabasi Abolghasem Khazali
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Seyed Mahdi Abadi – () * (20 March 2005)
Khuzestan
Abbas Ka'bi Ali Fallahian Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
Mohsen Araki Seyyed Ali Shafiei
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Seyed Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini
Kurdistan
Abdolqader Zahedi * (19 December 2005)
Lorestan
Markazi
Ahmad Mohseni Garakani
Mazandaran
Hadi Rohani * (13 October 1999) (Replaced Hadi Rohani)
Sadeq Larijani
Qazvin
Ali Sheikh Mohmmadi Takandi – () Seyed Hassan Mousavi Poor (Shali) – ()
Qom
Seyed Mahdi Rohani * (23 November 2000)
Semnan
Hassan Rouhani * (11 September 1999)
Sistan and Baluchestan
Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
Tehran
Ahmad Jannati Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Meshkini Gholamreza Rezvani Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi Majid Ansari Mohammed Emami-Kashani Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani Mohammad Reyshahri Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi Mohammad Yazdi Mohsen Kharazi Mohsen Qomi Reza Ostadi Seyed Mohammad Bagher Asadi Khonsari – ()
West Azerbaijan
Ali Akbar Ghoreishi
Yazd
Seyed Abbas Khatam Yazdi – () * (11 September 2001)
Zanjan
Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani * (18 December 2002)
See also
1998 Iranian Assembly of Experts election Assembly of Experts List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts List of members in the Second 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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