City Council appoints Pirouz Hanachi as Tehran mayor
MNA – Members of Tehran City Council have appointed Pirouz Hanachi as the new mayor, following Mohammad Ali Afshani’s forced resignation due…
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Tehran set for yet another mayor amid reformist infighting
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Members of the Tehran City Council will soon be choosing the Iranian capital’s third mayor in less than…
Hashemi re-elected to head of Tehran City Council
MNA – The Tehran City Council on Sunday has reinstated Mohsen Hashemi as the chairman for the second consecutive year with a…
Tehran City Council praises national women’s futsal team
MNA – Tehran City Council held a ceremony today to appreciate the efforts of national women’s futsal team after crowning champion in…
City Council accepts Mayor Najafi’s 2nd resignation
MNA – After an expert-level session, councilors at Tehran City Council (TCC) finally agreed with the second resignation of Tehran’s Mayor Mohammad…
City Council votes against Najafi’s resignation
MNA – City Council members on Sun. rejected the resignation submitted by Tehran’s mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi over ‘ill health’ and voted…
Street named for ex-PM Mosaddeq in Tehran
IRNA – The City Council of Tehran named one of the Streets of the city after Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq, said the spokesman…
Tehran City Council passes $3.7b municipality budget
Financial Tribune- The Tehran City Council passed the municipality’s budget for the next fiscal year (March 2018-19) on Tuesday, the council spokesman…
Special places to be built for protest gatherings in Tehran
IFP- Tehran’s City Council has passed a plan that urges the municipality to build special places in the capital city for holding…
Photos: Tehran’s new city council holds 1st session
Tasnim | Hamed Malekpour: The first official session of the new City Council of Tehran was held on Wednesday morning after the…
Can Tehran City Council catapult the younger Hashemi Rafsanjani onto the political stage?
Iranian Diplomacy- Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, the eldest son of the late Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was unanimously voted in as chairman of Tehran’s…
Hashemi Rafsanjani elected as head of Tehran City Council
IFP- Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, the eldest son of the late Iranian politician Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was unanimously elected as the head…
City Councilor: Milad Tower risks tilting
Financial Tribune- A member of the Tehran City Council has said Tehran’s iconic Milad Tower risks tilting as a result of an…
Tehran considering plan to name street after Mirzakhani
IFP- Members of Tehran City Council are going to discuss a plan to name one of the streets or places in the…
Vetting bodies verify results of city council election in Tehran
IRNA — Electoral District Executive and Supervisory Committees which oversee elections have officially validated the results of May 19 city council election…
Will Iran’s reformists become the victim of their own success?
Iranian Diplomacy- May 19th elections couldn’t have ended better for the Reformists and their moderate allies. Not only Hassan Rouhani, centrist president…
Women win highest ever seats in Tehran council election
Tehran Times- Six women have been elected to Tehran’s 5th city council election, registering a record high out of the total 21…
Rouhani supporters win city council seats in Tehran
Press TV- Vote counting in Iran’s city and village council elections is winding down across the country, with supporters of President Hassan…
Tehran city council primary results announced
MNA – Tehran’s governor Issa Farhadi announced the results of the fifth round of Tehran, Rey, Tajrish city council polls on Sunday.…
Former athletes under fire in Tehran City Council elections
Al-Monitor l Zahra Alipour: Late last year, Mansour Pourheidari, a former member of Iran’s national soccer team and a veteran coach, succumbed…
Over 1,300 register to run for Tehran’s City Council
Tasnim – Head of the Iranian Interior Ministry’s Election Headquarters Mohammad Hossein Moqimi announced that more than 1,300 individuals have registered so…
Plasco indecent results from people’s irrational, irresponsible votes
IFP- Iran’s oldest high-rise in downtown Tehran collapsed on Thursday (January 19) morning following a huge fire in the building, leaving many…
Thousands of buildings in Tehran unsafe: Councillors
IFP- “The latest inspections of 17,000 buildings in Tehran found that almost 3,000 are highly unsafe and insecure,” said Masoumeh Abad, head…
Corruption scandal hits Tehran City Council
According to an Iranian news outlets, Tehran’s City Council is caught up in a corruption scandal involving Tehran real estate. Memari News reported…
Proposal made to rename Tehran street after Muhammad Ali Clay
Tehran, June 5, IRNA – Eqbal Shakeri, a member of Tehran city council suggested on Sunday that a street in the Iranian…
Tehran population growth rate close to zero
A bill to urge the Tehran Municipality to establish a population committee to counter the plummeting rate of population growth in the…
Tehran official targets vehicles for pollution solutions
The head of Tehran City Council’s Civil Service Commission and Environmental Health says removing all aging motor vehicles and exchanging gas-powered motorcycles…
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Nov. 19
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 18 of them. IFP has…
Iran offers help to Qatar in 2022 World Cup preparation
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Tehran’s City Council voiced preparedness to help Qatar in preparation work for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, due to…
Tehran official says gender-based hiring rules nothing new
Tehran’s Deputy Mayor says a regulation passed by the Ministry of the Interior three years ago establishes that men cannot have female…
Tehran official suggests restoring old mosques with budget for new ones
The head of Tehran City Council says the money budgeted for building new mosques in the capital should be used to restore…
Tehran mayor stands firm on gender segregation plan
The mayor of Tehran has defended his move to segregate male and female workers in city offices, saying: “We have religious honour…
Tehran council demands answers after violent storm
Tehran City Council members have criticized Crisis Management in connection with the severe storm that struck the capital on Monday June 2.…