Prosecutor-General of Iran

Prosecutor-General of Iran
Emblem of Iran
Incumbent Mohammad Movahedi-Azad since August 6, 2023
Style	Prosecutor General (Attorney-General)
Appointer	Chief Justice of Iran
Term length	5 years
Inaugural holder	Fathollah Banisadr
Formation	1979

The prosecutor-general of Iran (or attorney-general), in the judicial system of Iran, is a "just mujtahid" appointed by the head of the judiciary in consultation with the judges of the Supreme Court to serve for a period of five years.

As the head of the prosecutor-general's office, they supervise prosecutor's offices in the country. At the same time, they have executive responsibility for law enforcement, prosecutions, setting priorities in the hearings of cases in their role as the head of the public prosecution for the state.

List of recent prosecutors-general

Name		Lifespan	Took office	Left office	Appointed by
1	Fathollah Banisadr	1931–1996	1979	1980	Asadollah Mobasheri
2	Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili	1926–2016	1980	1981	Ruhollah Khomeini
3	Mohammad-Mehdi Rabbani Amlashi	1937–1985	1981	1983
4	Yousef Saanei	1937–2020	1983	1985
5	Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha	born 1945	1985	1989
6	Mohammad Reyshahri	1946–2022	1989	1991	Mohammad Yazdi
7	Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi	1935–2003	1991	1994
8	Morteza Moghtadai	born 1936	1994	2001
9	Abdul-Nabi Namazi	1945–2024	2001	2004	Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
10	Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi	born 1950	23 August 2004	24 August 2009
11	Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i	born 1956	24 August 2009	23 August 2014	Sadeq Larijani Ebrahim Raisi Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
12	Ebrahim Raisi	1960–2024	23 August 2014	6 March 2016
13	Mohammad Jafar Montazeri	born 1949	1 April 2016	6 August 2023
14	Mohammad Movahedi-Azad	born 1960	6 August 2023	Incumbent	Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i

See also

• Judicial system of Iran