Expediency Discernment Council
Expediency, more "assembly for detecting the system interests " (Persian مجمع تشخیص مصلحت نظام, Majma -e Taschchis -e -e Nezam Maslehāt ) is an organ of the Iranian state apparatus and was launched on February 6, 1988 by Ruhollah Khomeini to life.
Function
The Expediency Council has set aside the task of a possible stalemate within the Iranian legislation through a switch. The Guardian checked every law passed by Parliament on the conformity with the Iranian Constitution and Islamic teachings. Find the Guardian contradictions, then the bill is rejected and delegated to the Parliament for revision. The Expediency can convey in this internal conflict between the Guardian Council and the Parliament, and ultimately enforce a law against the transfer of the Guardian Council. Here, the 1988 set up by Khomeini principle that the Expediency may enable the enforcement of a law, where it considers that the interests of the state order requiring it applies.
Members
The 35 members of the Expediency Council are appointed directly by the Supreme Leader and are composed of representatives of the revolutionary leader, members of the Guardian Council, political and military experts as well as members of the government. The differentiation of the participants will be determined for five years and whose term of office expires experts variable after 3 years in permanent expert. The Expediency Council, which meets at least once a month, decide by a majority vote.
On 27 February 2007 the following members were re-determined:
- Parviz Davoodi
- Davoud Danesh - Jafari
- Gholam Hossein Mohseni - - Ejei, head of the secret
- Ali Agha Mohammadi
- Mohammad Forouzandeh
Other members of
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman
- Ibrahim Amini Najafabadi
- Abbas Vaez Tabasi
- Mohammad Emami Kashani
- Mir Hossein Mousavi
- Ali Akbar Velayati, a former foreign minister
- Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri, former head of the secret service
- Hassan Sane'i
- Hassan Rohani, Iran's president new
- Habibollah Asgar Owladi
- Ghorban - Ali Dorri Nadschafabadi, former head of the secret service
- Ali Larijani, speaker of parliament
- Mostafa Mirsalim
- Mohammad Tavassoli Mahallati
- Morteza Nabavi
- Hassan Firouzabadi
- Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of the National Atomic Energy Agency
- Bijan Namdar Zanganeh
- Mohammad Hashemi, Rafsanjani 's younger brother of
- Ibrahim Hassan Habibi
- Mohsen Rezai, former Pasdaran - General
- Ahmad Jannati
- Ali Movahedi - Kermani
- Ali Akbar Nateq Nuri
- Mohammad Reza Aref
- Gholam Ali Haddad -Adel, former Speaker of the Parliament
- Majid Ansari
- Mohammad Reza Bahonar, Mohammad Javad Bahonar brother of
- Hossein Mozaffar
- Mohammad Javad Irvani