Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (born 23 August 1961) is an Iranian politician and former military officer who has served as the current speaker of the Parliament of Iran since 2020. A Principlist, he held office as the Mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017. Ghalibaf was formerly Iran's chief of Police Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2000 to 2005 and commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from 1997 to 2000.

He is also a pilot, certified to fly certain Airbus aircraft. He began his military career during the Iran–Iraq War in 1980. He became chief commander of the Imam Reza Brigade in 1982 and was chief commander of Nasr Division from 1983 to 1984. After the war, he became Managing-Director of Khatam al-Anbia, an engineering firm controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and was appointed commander of the IRGC Air Force in 1996 by Ali Khamenei. Four years later, he became chief of the Iranian Police Forces after the previous commander was dismissed following the 1999 student protests. He was also appointed Representative of President Mohammad Khatami during a campaign to combat smuggling in 2002. In September 2005, he was elected as Tehran's mayor by the City Council of Tehran. He is also a professor at the University of Tehran.

Ghalibaf is often regarded a perennial candidate in the presidential elections. He was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but lost to Hassan Rouhani, in second place with 17% (6,077,292) of the votes. He was also a candidate in the 2005 presidential election, coming in fourth with 14% of the vote. He announced his run for a third time in the 2017 election. However, he withdrew on 15 May 2017 in favor of Ebrahim Raisi's candidacy. He was a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, coming in third with 14% of the vote.

In the 2020 Iranian legislative election, the conservative Principlists regained the majority in the legislature, and Ghalibaf was elected as the new Speaker of Iran Parliament.