List of Tehran's Friday Prayer Imams

Ali Khamenei current supreme leader of Iran as Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam in 1979.

This list of Tehran's Friday Prayer Imams after 1979 Iranian Revolution contains both permanent and temporary ones. The current Imam is Supreme Leader of Iran Sayyid Ali Khamenei who appoints temporary Imams as well. Mohammad Emami Kashani, Ahmad Jannati, Ahmad Khatami, Kazem Seddiqi and Ali Movahedi-Kermani are currently Tehran's temporary Imams.^[1]

Imams

N°	Imam	Date	Appointed by	Notes
1	Mahmoud Taleghani †	27 July 1979–9 September 1979^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Died in office
2	Hussein Ali Montazeri †	12 September 1979–14 January 1980^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Resigned
3	Sayyid Ali Khamenei	14 January 1980–Present^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Nominated by Hussein Ali Montazeri

N°	Imam	Date	Appointed by	Notes
1	Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili	13 February 1981–24 December 1993^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Imamate unofficially ended
2	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	3 July 1981–17 July 2009^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Imamate unofficially ended
3	Mohammad Emami Kashani	30 October 1981–Present^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini
4	Mohammad Mahdi Rabbani Amlashi †	11 December 1981–?^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini	He was Imam 3 times
5	Mohammad Yazdi	1982–late 1990s^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini
6	Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani †	11 March 1983–19 June 2009^[2]	Ruhollah Khomeini	He was Imam 12 times
7	Ahmad Jannati	3 April 1992–Present^[2]	Sayyid Ali Khamenei
8	Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi †	?	Sayyid Ali Khamenei	He was Imam 9 times^[2]
9	Ahmad Khatami	2005–Present^[2]	Sayyid Ali Khamenei
10	Kazem Seddiqi	2009–Present^[2]	Sayyid Ali Khamenei
11	Ali Movahedi-Kermani	2012–Present^[2]	Sayyid Ali Khamenei

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