List of provincial representatives appointed by Supreme Leader of Iran
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The Vali-e-Faqih representatives in provinces of Iran (Persian: فهرست نمایندگان ولی فقیه در استانهای ایران) are the appointees of the Vali-e-Faqih Ali Khamenei based in each of the country’s provinces.[1] They are also Imam of Friday Prayers in the capital of each province,[2][3] and some of them are also members of Assembly of Experts.[4]
The Vali-e-Faqih representatives in provinces of Iran are:[5][6]
- Alborz: Seyyed Mohammad Mahdi Hosseini Hamedani (Imam-Juma' of Karaj)
- Ardabil: Hassan Ameli (Imam-Juma' of Ardabil)[7]
- Bushehr: Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri (Imam-Juma' of Bushehr)
- Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari: Mohammad Ali Nekunam (Imam-Juma' of Shahr-e Kord)
- East Azerbaijan: Vacant (see: 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash) (Imam-Juma' of Tabriz)[8]
- Fars: Lotfollah Dejkam (Imam-Juma' of Shiraz)[9]
- Gilan: Rasool Falahati (Imam-Juma' of Rasht)[10]
- Golestan: Kazem Nourmofidi (Imam-Juma' of Gorgan)[11]
- Hamadan: Habibollah Shabani Moaseghi (Imam-Juma' of Hamadan)[12]
- Hormozgān: Mohammad Ebadizadeh (Imam-Juma' of Bandar Abbas)[13]
- Ilam: Allah Noor Karimi Tabar (Imam-Juma' of Ilam)
- Isfahan: Yousef Tabatabai Nejad (Imam-Juma' of Isfahan)
- Isfahan: Saeed Hosseini (Imam-Juma' of Kashan)
- Kerman: Hasan Alidadi Soleimani (Imam-Juma' of Kerman)
- Kermanshah: Mostafa Olama (Imam-Juma' of Kermanshah)
- Khuzestan: Abdul-Nabi Mousavi Fard (Imam-Juma' of Ahwaz)[14]
- Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad: Nasir Hosseini (Imam-Juma' of Yasuj)[15]
- Kordestan: Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Shahroodi
- Lorestan: Seyyed Ahmad Reza Shahrokhi (Imam-Juma' of Khorramabad)[16]
- Markazi: Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi (Imam-Juma' of Arak)
- Mazandaran: Mohammad Bagher Mohammadi Laeeni (Imam-Juma' of Sari)
- North Khorasan: Reza Nouri (Imam-Juma' of Bojnord)
- Qazvin: Abdolkarim Abedini (Imam-Juma' of Qazvin)
- Qom: Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi (Imam-Juma' of Qom)[17]
- Razavi Khorasan: Seyyed Ahmad Alamolhoda (Imam-Juma' of Mashhad)
- Semnan: Morteza Motei (Imam-Juma' of Semnan)[18]
- Sistan and Baluchestan: Mostafa Mahami (Imam-Juma' of Zahedan)
- South Khorasan: Seyyed Ali Reza Ebadi (Imam-Juma' of Birjand)
- West Azerbaijan: Seyyed Mehdi Ghoreishi (Imam-Juma' of Urmia)[19]
- Yazd: Mohammad Reza Naseri Yazdi (Imam-Juma' of Yazd)[20]
- Zanjan: Ali Khatami (Imam-Juma' of Zanjan)[21]