Introduction

Established in 1906, the Minister of Justice is responsible for prosecuting government cases. In other words, the justice minister is the

attorney-general In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...

of the country. However, he has nothing to do with

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which is the responsibility of the Interior Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The ministry's headquarters was opened in 1938 and reflects pure European architectural style.

List of ministers

The ministers have included the following: * Nizam el Mulk (1906) * Ahmad Moshir al-Saltaneh (1906-1907) ''1st official Minister of Justice*Abdolhusein Mirza Farmanfarma (1907) * Mohammad Ali Khan Ala al-Saltaneh (1907) *Seyyed Mahmood Khan 'Ala ul-Molk (1907) *Mirza Hasan Khan Pirnia (Moshir ul-Dowleh) (1907) *Nezam ul-Molk (1907) *

Mehdi Qoli Hedayat Mehdi Qoli Khan Hedayat ( fa, مهدی قلی هدایت), also known as Mokhber-ol Saltaneh (1863 – September 21, 1955), was Prime Minister of Iran and an author of several books on Iranian music, modern education, poetry, current affairs, an ...

(1907) *Mohtasham ul-Saltaneh (1907) *Mokhber ul-Molk (1907) *Mehdi Qoli Khan Mokhber ul-Saltaneh (1907-1908) *Mokhber ul-Saltaneh (1908) *Mo'ayed ul-Saltaneh (1908) *Mohtashem ul-Saltaneh (1908-1909) *

Ahmad Qavam Ahmad Qavam (2 January 1873 – 23 July 1955; fa, احمد قوام), also known as Qavam os-Saltaneh ( fa, قوام السلطنه), was a politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran five times. Early life Qavam was born in 1873 to a p ...

(1909-1910) *Vosooq ul-Dowleh (1910) *Mirza Hassan Khan Esfandiary (1910-1911) *Mohammed- 'Ali Khan Zoka' al-Molk (1911-1912) * Esmail Momtaz od-Dowleh (1912) *

Mohammad Ali Foroughi Mohammad Ali Foroughi ( fa, محمدعلی فروغی; early August 1877 – 26 or 27 November 1942), also known as Zoka-ol-Molk (Persian: ذُکاءُالمُلک), was a writer, diplomat and politician who served three terms as Prime Minis ...

(1913-1914) *Mohammed- 'Ali Khan Zoka' al-Molk (1914-1915) *Fat'hollah Khan Sardar Mansur (1915) * Mohammed Ali Khan 'Ala' ul-Saltaneh (1915-1916) * Mahmood Khan 'Ala' ul-Molk (1916) * Seyyed Hasan Modarres (1916) *

Firouz Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III Prince Firouz Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III, GCMG (1889–1937) was the eldest son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farmanfarma and Princess Ezzat-ed-Dowleh Qajar. He was born in 1889 and died in April 1937. He was the grandson of his namesake, Nosrat Dowleh Firo ...

(1916-1917) * Esmail Momtaz od-Dowleh (1917) * Nasr ul-Molk (1917) * Mokhber ul-Saltaneh (1917-1918) * Nasr ul-Molk (1918) *

(1918-1920) * Mossadegh-ol-Saltaneh (1920) * Soleiman Khan (1920-1921) * Salar Lashkar (1921) * Mostafa Adl (1921) * Ebrahim 'Amid (1921-1922) *

Abdolhossein Teymourtash Abdolhossein Teymourtash ( fa, عبدالحسین تیمورتاش; 25 September 1883 – 3 October 1933) was an influential Iranian statesman who served as the first minister of court of the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1932, and is credited w ...

(1922) * Moshar ul-Saltaneh (1922) * Sardar Mo'azzam Khorasani (1922) * Moshar ul-Saltaneh (1922-1923) * Momtaz ul-Molk (1923) * 'Amid ul-Saltaneh (1923) * Ebrahim Khan Hakim ul-Molk (1923) * Mo'azed ul-Saltaneh (1923-1925) *

(1925) * 'Emad ul-Saltaneh Fatemi (1925-1926) *Mohsen Sadr (1926) * Mostafa Adl (1926-1927) * Vossug ed Dowleh (1926-1927) *

Ali-Akbar Davar Ali-Akbar Dāvar ( fa, علی‌اکبر داور also known as Mirza Ali-Akbar Khan-e Dāvar, 1885 – 9 February 1937) was an Iranian politician and judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran. Biography Born in 1885

(1926-1927) * Ahmad Matin-Daftari (1927-1933) * Mohsen Sadr (1933-1935) * Ahmad Matin-Daftari (1935-1940) * Majid Ahi (1940-1941) * Mohammed Soruri (1940-1941) * 'Ali Hey'at (1940-1941) * Majid Ahi (1941-1942) * Abbas Qoli Golshaian (1941-1942) * Majid Ahi (1942) * Mohsen Sadr (1942) * 'Ali Asghar Hekmat (1942) * Asadullah Mameqani (1942-1943) * Mohsen Sadr (1942-1943) *

Allah-Yar Saleh Allah-Yar Saleh ( fa, اللهیار صالح, born Saleh Arani; 1897–1981) was an Iranian politician and diplomat who was Iranian Ambassador to the United States during Mohammad Mosaddegh's premiership. Career Allah-Yar Saleh was a member of ...

(1943-1944) * Mostafa Adl (1944-1945) *

(1945) * Amanollah Ardalan (1945) * Hasan'ali Kamal Hedayar (1945) *

(1946) *Ali Akbar Musavi Zadeh (1946-1947) *Mohammed Soruri (1947-1948) *Nezam ul-Saltaneh (1948) *Abbas Qoli Golshaian (1948) *Sajjadi (1948-1950) *Mohammed 'Ali Buzari (1950-1951) *Jamal Akhavi (1951) *Ali Heyat (1951) * Shamseddin Amir-Alaei (1951-1952) * Abdolali Lotfi (1952-1953) *Jamal Akhavi (1953-1955) *Fakhr ul-Din Shadman (1953-1955) *Abbas Quli Golshaian (1955-1957) *

Ali Amini Ali Amini ( fa, علی امینی; 12 September 1905–12 December 1992) was an Iranian politician who was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1961 to 1962. He held several cabinet portfolios during the 1950s, and served as a member of parliame ...

(1955-1957) *Mohammad Ali Hedayati (1957-1961) *Mohammad 'Ali Momtaz (1961) * Husein Najafi (1961) * Nour ul-Din Alamuti (1961-1962) *Mohammad Baheri (1962-1964) * Gholamhusein Khoshbin (1962-1964) * Baqer Amali (1964-1966) * Javad Sadr (1967-1968) *Manuchehr Parto (1968-1970) *Sadeq Ahmadi (1972-1976) *Mundhir al-Shawi (1976) *Qolam Reza Kianpur (1977-1978) * Mohammed Baheri (1978) * Husein Najafi (1978-1979) * Yahya Sadeq Vaziri (1979) * Asadollah Mobasheri (1979) *

Ahmad Sayyed Javadi Ahmad Sayyed Javadi ( fa, احمد صدر حاج‌سیدجوادی; 24 June 1917 – 31 March 2013) was an Iranian lawyer, political activist and politician, who served as interior minister and justice minister. He was the first interior min ...

(1979) *''Judicial Council under observation of

Mohammad Beheshti Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti ( fa, سیّد محمد حسینی بهشتی; 24 October 1928 – 28 June 1981) was an Iranian jurist, philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after t ...

'' (1979-1980) * Ebrahim Ahadi (1980-1981) * Mohammad Asghari (1981-1984) *

Hassan Habibi Hassan Ebrahim Habibi ( fa, حسن حبیبی; 29 January 1937 – 31 January 2013) was an Iranian politician, lawyer, scholar and the first first vice president from 1989 until 2001 under Presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatam ...

(1984-1989) *

Esmail Shooshtari Mohammad Esmail Shooshtari (born 1949 in Quchan, Razavi Khorasan province) is a former Iranian politician, and was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1989 to 2005. He is a former member of the Islamic Consultative Ass ...

(1989-2005) *

Jamal Karimi-Rad Jamal Karimi-Rad (1956 – 28 December 2006) ( fa, جمال کریمی راد ) was the Minister of Justice A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administra ...

(2005-2006) * Gholam-Hossein Elham (2006-2009) * Morteza Bakhtiari (2009-2013) * Mostafa Pourmohammadi (2013-2017) * Alireza Avayi (2017–2021) * Amin Hossein Rahimi (2021–present)

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* {{authority control 1906 establishments in Iran

Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry. Lists of current ministries of justice Named "Ministry" * Ministry of Justice (Abkhazia) * Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan) * Ministry of Jus ...

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Ministries established in 1906 Ministers of Justice of Iran

Introduction

List of ministers

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