Ministry of Interior (Iran)

The Ministry of Interior of the Islamic Republic of Iran is in charge of performing, supervising and reporting elections, policing, and other responsibilities related to an interior ministry. Duties To provide and protect domestic security and establishment of peace and order across the country and coordination between intelligence, disciplinary, and military organs and protecting borders To manage police affairs To make an effort to achieve and develop political and social freedoms according to the constitution and other laws of the country and providing sustainable political and social development and promotion of public participation To protect and preserve the achievements of I.R. of Iran through public participations To provide conditions of appropriate practice of political and nongovernmental parties and formations and supervision on their activities To guide, lead and support of Islamic councils and supervision on their activities To establish desirable discipline in national divisions To coordinate and lead province governor generals to fulfill general policies and governmental plans To make policy, lead and supervise on affairs related to foreign nationals and emigrants To implement general policies of the government in order to make progress in social, economical and developmental plans To plan for elections affairs To coordinate for development of rural and urban development affairs and technical- executive guidance and support of municipalities and rural districts managers and supervision on execution of rules and regulations thereto To plan and manage to overcome crises resulted from natural disasters and unforeseen accidents To identify Iranian identities To supervise and manage affairs of regions across the country by governor generals, governors, governors of districts and rural district managers Subsidiaries National Migration Organization Ministers of Interior (1925–1979) Reign of Reza Shah Hossein Dadgar (December 20, 1925–June 13, 1926) Mostowfi ol-Mamalek (June 13, 1926–1926) Mahmoud Alamir (1926–February 12, 1927) Mehdi Moshir Fatemi (February 12, 1927–June 2, 1927) Hossein Sami'i (June 2, 1927–March 20, 1930) Ali Mansur (March 20, 1930–April 20, 1933) Ali Asghar Zarrinkafash (April 20, 1933–September 17, 1933) Mahmoud Djam (September 17, 1933–September 30, 1937) Abolgassem Forouhar (September 30, 1937–February 26, 1939) Ali-Asghar Hekmat (February 26, 1939–June 21, 1940) Ali Soheili (June 30, 1940–August 27, 1941) Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Javad Ameri (August 27, 1941–September 21, 1941) Amanullah Jahanbani (September 21, 1941–December 4, 1941) Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (December 4, 1941–July 7, 1942) Seyyed Mehdi Farrokh (July 7, 1942–August 9, 1942) Bagher Kazemi (August 9, 1942–August 23, 1942) Javad Ameri (August 23, 1942–January 21, 1943) Farajollah Bahrami (January 21, 1943–February 5, 1943) Ali Soheili (February 5, 1943–July 10, 1943) Hossein Sami'i (July 10, 1943–September 5, 1943) Mohammad Tadayyon (September 5, 1943–March 28, 1944) Abdolhossein Hazhir (March 28, 1944–September 6, 1944) Mohammad Sarwari (September 6, 1944–April 17, 1945) Ebrahim Hakimi (April 17, 1945–June 6, 1945) Mohsen Sadr (June 6, 1945–October 11, 1945) Khalil Fahimi (November 4, 1945–December 24, 1945) Allah-Yar Saleh (December 24, 1945–January 20, 1946) Ahmad Qavam (January 20, 1946–December 16, 1946) Ahmad Fereydouni (December 16, 1946–June 19, 1947) Farajollah Aqouli (June 19, 1947–September 22, 1947) Ahmad Qavam (September 22, 1947–December 25, 1947) Farajollah Aqouli (December 25, 1947–March 20, 1948) Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (March 20, 1948–June 22, 1948) Khalil Fahimi (June 22, 1948–September 22, 1948) Manouchehr Eghbal (September 22, 1948–February 25, 1950) Ebrahim Zand (February 25, 1950–April 25, 1950) Amanullah Ardalan (April 25, 1950–June 26, 1950) Ali Razmara (June 26, 1950–November 20, 1950) Amanullah Ardalan (November 20, 1950–February 20, 1951) Ahmad Fereydouni (February 20, 1951–August 5, 1951) (Acting) Shamseddin Amir-Alai (August 5, 1951–November 30, 1951) Amirteymour Kalali (November 30, 1951–February 17, 1952) Allah-Yar Saleh (February 17, 1952–April 16, 1952) Mustafa Gholi Ram (April 16, 1952–June 22, 1952) Gholam Hossein Sadighi (June 22, 1952–August 19, 1953) Fazlollah Zahedi (August 19, 1953–April 5, 1955) Asadollah Alam (April 5, 1955–April 4, 1957) Fathollah Jalali (April 4, 1957–August 29, 1958) Nader Batmanghelidj (September 10, 1958–June 10, 1959) Rahmatullah Atabaki (June 10, 1959–August 31, 1960) Mehdi Qoli Alavi Moghadam (August 31, 1960–February 20, 1961) Sadegh Amirazizi (February 20, 1961–February 18, 1963) Seyyed Mehdi Pirasteh (February 18, 1963–March 4, 1964) Javad Sadr (March 4, 1964–March 21, 1966) Abdolreza Ansari (March 21, 1966–March 21, 1967) Ataollah Khosravani (March 21, 1967–November 1, 1967) Amir Qasem Moeini (November 1, 1967–March 21, 1971) Muhammad Sam (March 21, 1971–April 27, 1974) Jamshid Amouzegar (April 27, 1974–August 7, 1977) Asadollah Nasr Esfahani (August 7, 1977–August 28, 1978) Abbas Gharabaghi (August 28, 1978–January 6, 1979) Shapour Bakhtiar (January 6, 1979–February 11, 1979) Ministers of Interior since 1979 See also Ministry of Intelligence (Iran) Ministry of Justice (Iran) Notes References External links Official website