Appointment of the Chairman, Secretary and members of the Expediency Council
Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a decree appointed the chairman, secretary and members of the Expediency Council for a five-year period.
The text of the ruling of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution is as follows:
In the name of Allah, the Merciful
I thank God, the All-Knowing and the All-Mighty, that with his help and guidance, the Expediency Discernment Assembly succeeded in fulfilling its important duties and this legal institution was able to play an effective role in the administration of the country for more than a quarter of a century. I feel it necessary to thank all the members and agents of this institution and to honor the memory of the deceased of this group, especially Mr. #Hashmi_Rafsanjani who was one of the political cylinders of the country and had the heavy responsibility of chairing this assembly for many years, as well as Mr. #Hujjatul-Islam wal-Muslimin Mr. And Mr. Asgrawaladi and Dr. Hassan Habibi, may God have mercy on them.
Now, with the beginning of the new period of this institution, according to the existing valuable experiences, changes in the structure and content are necessary, which mainly consist of:
-Organizing the set of general policies and revising the titles as well as in the process of determining and regulating it.
– Organizing the issue of monitoring the implementation of policies.
– Necessary mechanism to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of policies.
-Creating complete coherence in the organizational and management structure and focusing programs based on the approved bylaws.
– Organization agility and elimination of parallel and unnecessary departments.
Apart from these, other corrective changes will also be necessary during the work and in the shadow of the attention of those involved and the flexibility of the organization, and they will be applied, God willing.
With regard to what was said, I appoint Ayatollah Mr. Haj Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi as the chairman and Mr. Dr. Mohsen Rezaei as the secretary of the Expediency Recognition Assembly and the legal and natural persons listed below as its members in the new five-year period:
Legal entities:
A) Honorable heads of the three powers
b) The distinguished jurists of the Guardian Council
c) Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
d) Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council
e) The minister or the head of the institution to which the matter under discussion is related
f) The head of the commission appropriate to the topic of discussion of the Islamic Council
Real persons:
The verses and arguments of Islam:
Mr. Haj Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Mr. Haj Sheikh Ahmed Jannati, Mr. Amini Najafabadi, Mr. Mohadi Kermani, Mr. Natiq Noori, Mr. Haj Sheikh Hassan Saneyi, Mr. Mohseni Ajeei, Mr. Mojtahed Shabastri, Mr. Seyeda Brahim Raisi, Mr. Derri Najafabadi, Mr. Mohammadi Iraqhi, Mr. Majid Ansari, Mr. Mesbahi Moghadam.
And gentlemen:
Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Mr. Ali Aghamohammadi, Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr. Mohammad Javad Irwani, Mr. Mohammadreza Bahnar, Mr. Ahmad Tawakli, Mr. Saeed Jalili, Mr. Gholamali Haddadadal, Mr. Daoud Daneshjafari, Mr. Parviz Davodi, Mr. Mohsen Rezaei, Mr. Seyed Mohammad Sadr, Mr. Mohammad Hussain Safarharandi, Mr. Mohammad Reza Aref, Mr. Mohammad Foruzandeh, Mr. Seyedhassan Firouzabadi, Mr. Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Mr. Hossein Mohammadi, Mr. Hossein Muzaffar, Mr. Seyed Mustafi Mirsalem, Mr. Seyed Mohammad Mirmohammadi, Mr. Seyed Morteza Nabavi, Mr. Ali Akbar Velayati, Mr. Sadiq Waezzadeh, Mr. Ahmad Vahidi.
I invite the gentlemen to be present, proficient and accurate in discerning expediency, as well as soundness and fairness, and I pray for God’s success and guidance for myself and them. The points mentioned in the attachment of this ruling must be taken into consideration.
Seyyed Ali Khamenei
23 August 1996
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