Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution

Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Type
Type	Constituent assembly of Iran
History
Founded	18 August 1979
Disbanded	15 November 1979
Leadership
Speaker	Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Deputy Speaker	Mohammad Beheshti
Secretary	Hassan Ayat
Clerks	Hassan Azodi Mahmoud Rouhani
Structure
Seats	73
Political groups	Majority (55 to 58 seats) Islamic Republican Party Combatant Clergy Association Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom Opposition (10 to 14 seats) Freedom Movement of Iran Muslim People's Republic Party Radical Movement of Iran Muslim Union Party Vacant (1 seat)
Elections
Voting system	Multi-seat districts: Plurality-at-large voting Single-seat districts: First-past-the-post voting
First election	3–4 August 1979
Meeting place
Former Senate Building, Tehran, Iran
Constitution
Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution (AFRC; Persian: مجلس بررسی نهایی قانون اساسی)^[1] also known as the Assembly of Experts for Constitution (Persian: مجلس خبرگان قانون اساسی), was a constituent assembly in Iran that was convened in 1979 to condense and ratify the draft prepared beforehand for the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It was mandated by the Council of the Islamic Revolution after the March 1979 referendum for regime change, and composed of 73 seats including four reserved for ethnoreligious minorities and the rest representing provincial constituencies on a basis of population. The elections to the assembly were held by the Interim Government of Iran in August 1979, which resulted in a landslide victory for the Islamist disciples of Ruhollah Khomeini who successfully added his theory –the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist– to the constitution despite opposition by the minority.

It convened on 18 August 1979 and completed its deliberations rewriting the constitution on 15 November 1979. Subsequently, the constitution was approved in a referendum in December 1979.