Tehran City Council ( fa, انجمن شهر تهران, anjoman-e šahr-e teḥrān) was the directly-elected

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Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

and the first such institution to convene in

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, serving as a model for other city councils in the country. It formalized selection of

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, designated by the

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. The council had 30 members and 12 committees each with 5 members, with each member able to chair in up to two. The members met once per week in an open session attended by the mayor and journalists. The council suffered from the weakness of democratic accountability, lack of administrational and financial autonomy and limited scope of authority. The last elections to the council took place in

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and it was abolished in 1979 when the

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took place.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tehran City Council (1968-1979) Government of Tehran City councils in Iran, Tehran 1968 establishments in Iran 1979 disestablishments in Iran