# List of members in the Fifth Term of the Council of Experts

The List of members from the fifth term of the Assembly of Experts. (Persian:فهرست نمایندگان دوره پنجم مجلس خبرگان رهبری,romanized:Fehreste nâmâyandegân dore panjom majles-e khobregân-e rahbari) consists of names of the members during the fifth and current term of the Assembly of Experts from 2016 to 2024. Elections for the Assembly of Experts occurs every 8 years.
"Assembly of experts (of the Leadership)", or the "Council of Experts" is the deliberative body empowered to appoint and dismiss the Supreme Leader of Iran; and Seyyed Ali Khamenei is the current Supreme Leader of Iran.
The elections took place on 26 February 2016, with the Inauguration occurring on 24 May 2016.

## Members

The list is ordered Alphabetically.
Members with * next to their name, indicates they died while in office.
* Alborz
* Mohsen Kazeroni [fa]
* Mohammad-Mahdi Mirbagheri
* Ardabil
* Seyed Fakhreddin Mousavi * (18 September 2021)
* Seyed Hassan Ameli
* Bushehr
* Seyed Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
* Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
* Alireza Eslamian [fa]
* East Azerbaijan
* Ali Malakouti
* Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi
* Mohammad Feyz Sarabi * (11 April 2022)
* Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi
* Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari * (17 November 2021)
* Fars
* Ahmad Beheshti
* Ali Akbar Kalantari [fa]
* Assad-Allah Imani * (7 May 2018)
* Lotfollah Dezhkam (Replaced Assad-Allah Imani in midterm election Feb 2020)
* Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
* Seyed Mohammad Faghie * (22 March 2022)
* Gilan
* Ahmad Parvaei Rik [fa]
* Reza Ramezani Gilani
* Seyed Ali Hosseini Ashkevari [fa]
* Zaynolabideen Ghorbani
* Golestan
* Seyed Abdol Hadi Hosseini Shahroudi [fa]
* Seyed Kazem Nourmofidi
* Hamadan
* Ghiaseddin Taha Mohammadi [fa]
* Seyed Mostafa Mousavi Faraz
* Hormozgan
* Seyed Ruhollah Sadr Al-Sadati [fa]
* Ilam
* Seyed Mohsen Saeedi Golpaygani [fa]
* Isfahan
* Abdol Mohammad Abdolahi [fa]
* Abdul-Nabi Namazi * (28 January 2024)
* Morteza Moghtadai
* Seyed Abolhasan Mahdavi [fa]
* Seyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
* Kerman
* Ahmad Khatami
* Aman-Allah Alimoradi [fa]
* Mohammad Bahrami Khoshkar [fa]
* Kermanshah
* Aman Narimani [fa]
* Mohammad Mohammadi Araghi [fa]
* Khuzestan
* Abbas Ka'bi
* Abdul Karim Farhani
* Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi Shahroudi [fa]
* Mohsen Heidari Alekasir
* Seyed Ali Shafiei
* Seyed Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
* Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
* Seyed Sharaf Aldin Malek Hosseini [fa]
* Kurdistan
* Faegh Rostami [fa]
* Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Shahroudi [fa]
* Lorestan
* Ahmad Moballeghi
* Hashem Niazi [fa]
* Markazi
* Ahmad Mohseni Garakani
* Mohsen Araki
* Mazandaran
* Ali Moalemi [fa]
* Norallah Tabresi [fa] * (8 February 2020)
* Sadeq Larijani
* Seyed Rahim Tavakol [fa]
* Seyed Sadegh Pishnamazi – (سید صادق پیشنمازی) (Replaced Norallah Tabresi in second midterm election in June 2021)
* North Khorasan
* Gholamreza Fayazi [fa] (Replaced Habiollah Mehman Navaz in midterm election Feb 2020)
* Habibollah Mehman Navaz [fa] * (22 April 2018)
* Qazvin
* Ali Eslami (cleric) [fa]
* Majid Talkhabi [fa]
* Qom
* Mohammad Momen * (21 February 2019)
* Mohammad Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad Momen in midterm elections Feb 2020) * (9 December 2020)
* Seyed Mohammad Saeedi (Replaced Mohammad Yazdi in second midterm elections in June 2021)
* Razavi Khorasan
* Hassan Alemi [fa]
* Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei
* Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (Replaced Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi in midterm election Feb 2020) * (1 January 2021)
* Seyed Ahmad Alamolhoda
* Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani
* Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi * (24 December 2018)
* Seyed Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi (Replaced Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi in the second midterm elections in June 2021)
* Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
* Semnan
* Seyed Mohammad Shahcheraghi
* Sistan and Baluchestan
* Abbas-Ali Soleimani * (26 April 2023)
* Ali Ahmad Salami [fa]
* South Khorasan
* Seyed Ebrahim Raisi
* Tehran
* Abbas Ali Akhtari (Replaced Nasrallah Shah Abadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020) * (31 October 2022)
* Alireza Arafi (Replaced Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani in second midterm elections in June 2021)
* Ahmad Daneshzadeh Momen – (احمد دانشزاده مؤمن) (Replaced Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri in second midterm elections in June 2021)
* Ahmad Jannati
* Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani * (8 January 2017)
* Ali Momen Poor [fa] (Replaced Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in midterm elections in Feb 2020)
* Ali Movahedi-Kermani
* Ebrahim Amini * (24 April 2020)
* Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam (Replaced Seyed Abolfazel Mir Mohammadi in midterm elections in Feb 2020)
* Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
* Hassan Rouhani
* Hossein Ali Saadi [fa] (Replaced Ebrahim Amini in second midterm elections in June 2021)
* Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri * (18 August 2020)
* Mohammed Emami-Kashani * (2 March 2024)
* Mohammad Hassan Zali [fa]
* Mohammad Reyshahri * (21 March 2022)
* Mohsen Esmaeili (First non-Mujtahid to be elected in Assembly of Experts)
* Mohsen Qomi
* Nasrallah Shah Abadi * (12 March 2018)
* Seyed Abolfazel Mir Mohammadi [fa] * (24 November 2019)
* Seyed Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani * (16 March 2020)
* Seyed Mahmoud Alavi
* West Azerbaijan
* Asghar Dirbaz
* Javad Mojtahed Shabestari
* Seyed Ali Akbar Ghoreishi
* Yazd
* Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi
* Zanjan
* Mohammad Haji Abolqasem Doulabi [fa]