The Islamic City Council of Tehran (شورای اسلامی شهر تهران) is the elected council that presides over the city of Tehran, elects the Mayor of Tehran, and budgets the Municipality of Tehran. It has fifteen members. A Council is a group of people who usually possess some powers of governance. ... Tehran is a metropolis of 14 million situated at the foot of the towering Alborz range. ...
All the members of the current council are conservatives belonging to the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (Abadgaran) and are close to the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But it is widely believed that none of them would be chosen as members of his cabinet, because such an act would lead to the succession of Mostafa Tajzadeh, a reformist, to the council. The Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (ائتلاف آبادگران ایران اسلامی; Etelāf-e Ābādgarān-e Īrān-e Eslāmī), usually shortened to Abadgaran (آبادگران), is an alliance of some conservative Iranian political parties and organizations. ... Order: 6th President of Iran Vice President: Has not announced yet Term of office: August 3, 2005 – present Preceded by: Mohammad Khatami Succeeded by: Incumbent Date of birth: 1956 Place of birth: ArÄdÄn, Iran First Lady: Unknown Political party: Abaadgaran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Ù…Øمود اØمدی‌نژاد; born 1956), also written Ahmadinezhad, is... Seyyed Mostafa Tajzadeh (سید مصطفی تاجزاده; born 1956) is an Iranian progressive, reformist politician, and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front. ...
See also:List of members of City Council of Tehran. This is a list of members of City Council of Tehran: Second Council (present) members, 2003-2007 Hassan Bayadi Mehdi Chamran (chair) Khosrow Daneshjou Habib Kashani Rasoul Khadem Manzar Khayyer Habibollahi Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa Mahnoush Motamedi Azar Hamzeh Shakib Nader Shariatmadari Abbas Sheibani Nasrin Soltankhah Amirreza Vaezi Ashtiani Masoud Zaribafan...
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Islamic City Council of Tehran, the council's website (in Persian)
Tehran, Jan 15, IRNA -- Several political associations, in a joint statement quoted by the press Wednesday, lashed out at an arbitration panel's dissolution of TehranCityCouncil, describing the move as a "stain" on President Mohammad Khatami's reform government.
Meanwhile, most of the council sessions were cancelled for lack of quorum, with the issue of building high-rises in the choking over 12-million city being at the heart of the bickering.
Tehran mayor on Tuesday accused unnamed "some" of wanting to "make an unchecked use of the city without paying" premiums to the municipality, thus echoing a recent press claim that certain members of the CityCouncil were involved in high-rise building.
TEHRAN -- The moderate-leaning mayor of Iran's capital was reelected yesterday in a CityCouncil vote that signaled waning support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose allies campaigned hard against the choice.
TehranCityCouncil members were under tremendous pressure from the government not to vote for Qalibaf.
Female staffers at the Tehran municipality, for example, have not been forced to wear the chador, a head-to-toe robe that is the most conservative of Islamic dress.
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