President of Iran

The President of Iran has a very important role in the political institutions of the Iran. In the beginning, the station was rather honorary at the time where it had been created, according to the constitution of the Islamic Republic, according to the fall of the Shah in 1979. The presidency became an increasingly important station, especially since 1989. The current president is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Role in the state

In contrast with the majority of the republics, the effective leader of the Iranian institutional system is not the president but the Supreme guide , which is a religious character selected by a Assemblée of the experts. The Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, for example, which east can be leading the most famous in occident, was supreme guide and not president.

In spite of that, the president of the Iran fills of many functions of Head of State, like the fact of naming the ambassadors. Since the modification of the constitution in 1988 which removed the station of Prime Minister and amalgamated the majority of the tasks of the Prime Minister with those of the president, the presidency of the republic became a significant station in term of governmental influence.

The president is responsible for the implementation of the constitution and the exercise of the executive powers, except for those directly related to the supreme guide. The president names and supervises the the Council of Ministers, coordinates the decisions of the government and selects the policies of the government before they are transmitted to the Parliament. Eight vice-presidents assist the president, as well as a cabinet of 21 ministers, who all must be approved by the Parliament. Contrary in many other states, the executive branch in Iran does not control the armed forces. Although the president names the Ministers for the information and defense, it is of habit which the president obtains the explicit agreement of the supreme guide for these two ministers before submitting them to the Parliament for the vote of confidence.

Moreover, as a more elected high ranking authority of the country, the president is responsible with respect to the public opinion whereas the supreme guide is not it.

Qualifications and Elections

The president of Iran east elected in a national election by the vote for all it vote is allowed any Iranian citizen having more than 15 years. The selection of the candidates for the election is limited to the candidates approved by the Conseil of the Guards. The 12 members of this council are named directly or indirectly by the supreme guide and are intended to preserve the values of the theocratic Islamic government of Iran. To be eligible with the presidency, the council proclaims that the following conditions must be filled:

the candidate must be a man
it must be Musulman Duodécimain
it must have between 25 and 75 years
it should not be condemned
it should not have served the country during Iranian monarchy
it must be honest in the Islamic Republic

According to the Iranian constitution, the president is selected among the people meeting the following conditions: of Iranian origin, of Iranian nationality, administrator and advised, equipped with good antecedents, worthy of confidence, virtuous, pious and attached to the bases of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the official religion of the country.

It is thanks to its conditions that the council of the Guards opposes his Veto to the candidates who are not acceptable. The procedure of approval is regarded as a verification of the credential of the president, and, generally, only a negligible minority of candidates are approved. In the election of 1997 for example, only 4 of the 238 potential candidates could be presented to the election. No woman forever authorized to present itself. The Western observers criticize this system of approval which is a manner for the council of the Guards and the supreme guide to make sure that only fundamentalist candidates as they can gain the presidential station.

The president must be elected in the majority simple of a popular vote. A second round can be necessary to finish the process of election.

According to the Iranian constitution, when the president dies or is relieved, a presidential Conseil especially formed directs temporarily in its place while waiting for the behavior of elections.

The elected president becomes automatically president of the Council of the Cultural revolution and the Safety advice Main road.

President of Iran

Abolhassan Banished Sadr - President of the February 4th 1980 until its dismissal the June 9th 1981
Mohammad Ali Rajai - elected official chair the August 2nd 1981 after the dismissal of Sadr Outlaw until his assassination the August 30th 1981
Ali Khamenei - president elected the October 2nd 1981, re-elected in 1985. With fulfilled the role of Supreme guide and president after the death of Khomeini before the election of Rafsandjani. In station until the July 28th 1989
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - elected official chair the August 3rd 1989, re-elected in 1993, in station jusque' with the August 3rd 1997.
Mohammad Khatami - elected official chair the August 3rd 1997, re-elected in 2001, in station until the August 3rd 2005.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - elected official with the second turn the June 24th 2005, posts of it since the August 3rd 2005.

See too

List of the leaders of Iran (Persia)

External bonds

Office of the president
presidential Office for the scientific studies and industrial

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