The first official session of the new City Council of Tehran was held on Wednesday morning after the 21 fresh members took the oath of office.
In a ballot in the meeting, Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani was chosen as the chair of the council with a unanimous vote.
Ebrahim Amini was also elected as the vice-chairman of the council, an influential municipal body that appoints the mayor of Tehran.
In the 5th City and Village Councils elections across Iran in May, candidates in a list known as reformists gained the whole 21 seats in Tehran’s City Council.
The highest number of votes went to Hashemi, the son of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and chairman of the country’s Expediency Council who died in January.
The top figure of the list has garnered 1,746,568 votes.
According to Article 7 of the Iranian Constitution, the local councils, together with the parliament, are “decision-making and administrative organs of the State”.