Spokesperson of the Government of Iran

Spokesperson of the Government
سخنگوی دولت
Emblem of Iran
Flag of Iran
Incumbent Fatemeh Mohajerani since 28 August 2024
Appointer	President of Iran
Term length	No fixed term

Spokesperson of the Government of Iran is responsible for gathering and disseminating information regarding the Cabinet to the media. Currently the position is held by Fatemeh Mohajerani.[1]

Spokespersons

Before 1979 revolution

No.	Name		Took office	Left office	Party	Cabinet	Prime Minister
		Hossein Fatemi	1951	19 August 1953	National Front	Mosaddegh	Mohammad Mosaddegh
		Abolhassan Amidi	1953	1953	Independent	Zahedi	Fazlollah Zahedi
		Abbas Farzanegan	1953	1955	Independent
		Hasan Arsanjani	5 May 1961	19 July 1962	Independent	Amini	Ali Amini
		Dariush Homayoon[2]	August 1977	August 1978	Resurgence	Amouzegar	Jamshid Amouzegar

After 1979 revolution

As follows:[3][4][5]

No.	Name		Took office	Left office	Party	Cabinet	President	Prime Minister
1		Abbas Amir-Entezam	13 February 1979	1 July 1979	FMI	Interim		Mehdi Bazargan
2		Sadeq Tabatabaei	1 July 1979	6 November 1979	FMI
3		Hassan Habibi	8 November 1979	20 July 1980	FMI	Interim		vacant
4		Behzad Nabavi	17 December 1980	December 1981	MIRO	1st	Abolhassan Banisadr	Mohammad-Ali Rajai
						2nd	Mohammad-Ali Rajai	Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
						Interim	vacant	Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
5		Ahmad Tavakkoli	16 December 1981	3 August 1983	IRP	3rd	Ali Khamenei	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
	vacant
						4th
	vacant					5th	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
						6th
6		Ata'ollah Mohajerani	7 December 1997	14 December 2000	ECP	7th	Mohammad Khatami
7		Abdollah Ramezanzadeh	19 December 2001	3 August 2005	IIPF	8th
8		Gholam-Hossein Elham	7 August 2005	25 August 2009	—	9th	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
9		Shamseddin Hosseini^1	10 January 2010	3 August 2013		10th
10		Mohammad Reza Rahimi^2	10 January 2010	31 October 2012
(8)		Gholam-Hossein Elham	11 December 2012	3 August 2013	FIRS
11		Mohammad Bagher Nobakht	28 August 2013	1 August 2018	MDP	11th	Hassan Rouhani
						12th
	vacant
12		Ali Rabii	30 May 2019	3 August 2021	ILP
13		Ehsan Khandozi^1	26 October 2021	28 July 2024	—	13th	Ebrahim Raisi
14		Ali Bahadori Jahromi	14 November 2021	28 July 2024	—
1.Economic affairs spokesperson 2.Political affairs spokesperson

See also

• Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran

References

1. https://www.president.ir/en/132604
2. "Dariush Homayoon died" (in Persian). BBC Persian. 29 January 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
3. Khedir, Mehrdad (29 August 2013). "سخنگویی دولت، متن است نه حاشیه" (in Persian). Asr-e Iran. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
4. 34 سال پس از انقلاب؛ 11 دولت، 9 سخنگو (in Persian), Khabar Online, retrieved 23 March 2015
5. "تصویب‌نامه راجع به انتصاب سخنگو و رئیس شورای اطلاع‌رسانی دولت" (in Persian). Vekalat Online. Retrieved 13 September 2017.