The new members of the City Council of Tehran elected Alireza Zakani as the mayor of the metropolis. The Council picked Zakani as mayor in a vote held on Wednesday. Zakani, 55, has been serving as a member of the Iranian Parliament representing the city of Qom since early 2020. He has also led the Iranian Parliaments Research Center for nearly ...

IRNA Mayor of Iran's capital Pirouz Hanachi on Tuesday voiced the readiness of the Tehran municipality to cooperate with European capitals and metropolises with the purpose of expanding ties. Heading a delegation, Hanachi arrived in Vienna to participate in BRIDGE for Cities 4.0 underway September 3-4. Hanachi said that municipalities are not ...

Financial Tribune - After the official launch of two new stations in Tehran Metros Line 7 early this week, urban managers assured the citizens of swift progress in the expansion of Tehran subway network. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony on Monday, Tehran Mayor Pirouz Hanachi said by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2020), a major ...

IRNA Iranian Interior Minister Abdol Reza Rahmani Fazli in a decree appointed Pirooz Hanachi as the new mayor of the Iranian capital city. The appointed mayor of Tehran, 54, was the deputy mayor for technical and construction affairs under Najafi's office. Then he was moved to the urban development and architecture department of Tehran's Municipality....

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Members of the Tehran City Council will soon be choosing the Iranian capitals third mayor in less than 18 months. This comes as political infighting between Reformist groups is on the rise, making the public lose hope in the competency of the camp. Mohammad Ali Najafi, who became mayor after Reformists swept the city council ...

IRNA - Tehran Councilors appointed Mohammad Ali Afshani as Tehran Mayor on Sunday. Afshani was elected to the post with 19 out of 21 votes in his favor in the 63th open session of Tehran City Council. Tehran City Council between two nominees for the post namely Afshani and Samiollah Hosseini Makarem finally picked up the former for the high-profile ...

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Tehran's reformist mayor was replaced on Tuesday following claims he was threatened with arrest if he did not step down. Mohammad Ali Najafi, who took power after reformists swept the council elections last May, said he was suffering from unspecified health problems that required extensive treatment. But his allies say he ...

Al-Monitor- On March 14, Iranians woke up to a surprising piece of news: Tehrans mayor, prominent Reformist Mohammad Ali Najafi, who was onlychosen as mayor in August, had submitted his resignation to the city council. Explaining the reason for what had occurred, Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, the chairman of Tehrans Reformist-dominated city council, ...

IRNA A member of the Tehran City Council confirmed on Wednesday that the mayor of Iran's capital has resigned. '[Tehran Mayor] Mohammad-Ali Najafi has submitted his resignation to the City Council in writing,' said Ahmad Majed-Jame'i. The news of the mayor's resignation was confirmed by a municipal official after earlier contradictory reports....

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Less than two months into his tenure as the new mayor of Tehran,Mohammad Ali Najafiis already facing serious challenges. The Reformist politician took over the reins from conservative Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who held the post for 12 years (2005-2017). Ghalibafs mayorship came to an end in late August, but managers loyal ...

IRNA Interior Minister Abderreza Rahmani-Fazli on Sunday issued decree of Mohammad Ali Najafi as Tehran new mayor, said spokesman of the ministry. Salma Samani said that the minister signed Najafis decree as per the Article 80 of the Islamic Councilors and Election of Mayors Law to endorse Tehran City Councils election of Najafi as Tehran mayor on ...

Tasnim - New members of the City Council of Tehran elected Mohammad Ali Najafi as the mayor of the metropolis by a unanimous vote on Wednesday. In the first formal session of the new City Council of Tehran, Najafi was chosen as the mayor by garnering the votes of all 21 councilors. Najafi, 66, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Tasnim The new members of the City Council of Tehran on Thursday singled out Mohammad Ali Najafi as the final pick to take over the position of mayor. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Morteza Alviri, a member of the new City Council, said Najafi has been chosen as the final nominee for the post of Tehran Mayor with the unanimous vote of the ...

Al Monitor - The Tehran mayorship is a controversial position. Over the past 12 years, mayors have sought to runfor the presidencya dream that came true for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005. The current mayor, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, is a conservative who hasunsuccessfully tried his luckin presidential elections three times. Besides his variousalleged ...

Al Monitor |Saeid Jafari: Iranian Reformists are now faced with the desirable, but highly contentiouschallenge of electing a new mayor ofTehranfollowing sweeping victories in May 19 city council and village elections. Even the Reformists themselves did not expect to gain control of every council seat in the capital. Their decisive victory, however,...

Tehran, May 21, The Iran Project Tehran Mayor has accepted to provide a suitable place for the establishment of the Parties House, deputy interior minister for political affairs said on Thursday, Tasnim news agency reported. Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has promised to consider a place for the Parties House, Mohammad Hussein Moghimi, deputy ...

Over 700 artistic works from Iran and other countries have appeared on Tehran billboards to turn the capital into the worlds largest art gallery ever. Tehran has turned into the worlds biggest art gallery with works of art including paintings, calligraphies, carpets and letterhead scripts on display on billboards across the city for ten days. On ...

TEHRAN The mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, is well known in Iran as a former Revolutionary Guards commander, retired pilot and the loser of two presidential elections. This week he added one more title patron of the arts as he directed all of the citys 1,500 billboards fitted out with copies of famous works of art, including many by prominent ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 25 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A meeting in Tehran on ways of promoting healthy administrative strategies and countering corruption and the message the Supreme Leader sent to the meeting, which was ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The news of ongoing rallies across America in protest against the decision of a grand jury not to indict a white New York police officer over the death of Eric Garner,...