| Association of Combatant Clerics مجمع روحانیون مبارز |
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| Leader | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha |
| Founded | March 16, 1988 |
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran |
| Ideology | Moderate Islamism, Reformism Centrism |
| International affiliation | None |
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| http://webneveshteha.com/ (Not official website, but a weblog of party leader) | |
The Association of Combatant Clerics (Persian: مجمع روحانیون مبارز; majma'-e rowhāniyūn-e mobārez), also translated as the Assembly of Combatant Clerics, is a reformist Iranian political party. It was established on March 16, 1988. It is not to be confused with the Combatant Clergy Association (Persian: جامعه روحانیت مبارز) which is a conservative political party.
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History
The Combatant Clerics League was founded in 1987 after abolition of the Islamic Republic Party, the last political party of that time. The league was originally radical, populist, [1] rather than reformist, and favored a focus "on exporting the revolution and calling for the state's monopoly over the economy,"[2] rather than democracy and freedom of expression.
After the resignation of Mehdi Karroubi from the post of secretary general, the party had no secretary general until late August 2005, when Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha was elected as the new secretary general. The other high official in the party is Mohammad Khatami, the Chairman of the Central Council and former President of Iran.
Current leading members
Its current leading members include Mohammad Khatami, Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha (former presecutor general of Iran), Rasoul Montajebnia (former Majlis representative), and Mohammad Ali Abtahi (former Vice President of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs).
As of August 2005[update], some members of the party's central council are:
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi
- Majead Ansari
- Mohammad Ali Ansari
- Ashtiani
- Bojnourdi
- Dorchei
- Kian Ersi
- Mohammad Hashemi
- Emam Jamarani
- Hadi Khamenei
- Mohammad Khatami
- Khosravi
- Moghaddam
- Rasoul Montajebnia
- Mousavi-Khoini
- Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari
- Nezamzadeh
- Nourmofidi
- Rahmani
- Razavi
- Sadoughi
- Seraj
- Shakouri
- Tavassoli
- Velaee
- Zakeri
Notes
- ^ Brumberg, Daniel, Reinventing Khomeini : The Struggle for Reform in Iran, University of Chicago Press, 2001, p.162
- ^ Mneisi, Ahmad. ""The power shift within Iran's right wing."". http://www.ahram.org.eg/acpss/eng/ahram/2004/7/5/EGYP1.HTM. Retrieved 2006-04-19. At the Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies.
See also
Source and external links
- Mr Khatami, the Chairman of the Central Council of Militant Clerics Society, from Mohammad Ali Abtahi's weblog (in Persian)
- Mousavi Khoiniha became the secretary general of the Militant Clerics Society, from BBC Persian
- First meeting notes of Militant Clerics Society, from Mohammad Ali Abtahi's Persian weblog
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