List of Presidents of Iran

This is a list of all the Presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran since the establishment of that office in 1979.President of Iran is highest popularly elected. The current President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad since the Iranian presidential election, 2005. He is President for the second time after the Iranian presidential election, 2009 but other candidates and the people presume Mir-Hossein Mousavi is President.

He is the symbol of the velvet election; it cooperates with the coup of the militia and the Revolutionary Guards (Sepah) select him to be President.

List of Presidents

      Independent       Conservatives       Reformists

#	Name	Picture	Born-Died	Took Office	Left Office	Political Party	Term
1	Abolhassan Banisadr		1933-	4 February 1980	22 June 1981 (Removed by the Parliament of Iran) (impeached)	Independent	1
2	Mohammad Ali Rajai		1933-1981	2 August 1981	30 August 1981 (He and the prime minister were killed in a meeting by a briefcase bomb) (assassinated)	Islamic Republic Party (Hezb-e-Jomhouriy-e-Eslami)	2
3	Ali Khamenei		1939-	13 October 1981	16 August 1985	Combatant Clergy Association (Jame'e-ye Rowhaniyat-e Mobarez)	3
				16 August 1985	3 August 1989		4
4	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani		1934-	3 August 1989	3 August 1993	Executives of Construction Party (Hezb-e Kargozaran-e Sazandegi)	5
				3 August 1993	2 August 1997		6
5	Mohammad Khatami		1943-	2 August 1997	8 August 2001[1]	Association of Combatant Clerics (Majma-e Rowhaniyun-e Mobarez)	7
				8 August 2001[1]	3 August 2005		8
6	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad		1956-	3 August 2005	5 August 2009	Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (E'telaf-e Abadgaran-e Iran-e Eslami)	9
				5 August 2009	Incumbent (Term expires 5 August 2013)		10

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