# Pezeshkian is elected MP for Tabriz

Date: 2008

## The fact

In March 2008 [Masoud Pezeshkian](/people/masoud-pezeshkian) was elected to the Majlis from Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, beginning a sixteen-year parliamentary career.

## Context

He is ethnically Azeri. Neighbouring deputy-speakership is 2016. Neighbouring 2021 disqualification is later.

Health ministry 2001 is earlier. Deputy speaker 2016 is later.

The President of Iran is head of the executive, not commander-in-chief of the IRGC or the armed forces. That command sits with the Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian does not write IAEA Board resolutions, [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

## Evidence and sources

Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) and [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights): a completed Azeri-majority-city seat is a representation instrument inside a filtered Majlis.

## What is established and what is not

Established: March 2008 Tabriz Majlis election, independently reported.

Not established: that the Majlis checked the Leader, or a unique later turnout coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Guardian Council had cleared candidates. He sat.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Pezeshkian is elected MP for Tabriz, not a later speech about Pezeshkian is elected MP for Tabriz.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Pezeshkian is elected MP for Tabriz on 2008-03-14 is not a licence to treat every later Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Pezeshkian is elected MP for Tabriz into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters in Tabriz returned him. The Guardian Council had cleared candidates. He sat. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Masoud Pezeshkian: https://factrail.ai/people/masoud-pezeshkian

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-majilis-pezeshkian-tabriz-2008/
- https://en.parliran.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-mp-2008