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Political parties in Iran gives information on the political parties in Iran.

Iran has regular presidential and parliamentary elections. Only those candidates and parties that are approved by the clerical Guardian Council can be elected. The system as a whole is presented as a "republic" based on Islamist ideology.

Currently, there are 223 ^[1] registered political parties, associations and organizations that have been given legitimacy to operate, but not as an opposition to the religious system of the governance. They usually operate in loose alignments within two main coalitions, the conservative and the reformist.

Contents 1 Parties inside Iran 1.1 Conservative Alliance 1.1.1 Main Parties 1.1.2 Ultra-conservatives 1.2 Reformist Coalition 1.2.1 Main Parties 1.2.2 Dissident Groups 2 Opposition parties active in exile 2.1 Generality 2.1.1 Ideologies 2.1.2 Notability of these parties 2.1.3 Important individuals without party 2.2 History 2.2.1 Past (1990-2003) 2.2.2 Present (2003-2008) 2.2.3 Gathering together (2009) 2.3 Names and websites of the Opposition 2.3.1 The Communists 2.3.1.1 Historical party 2.3.1.2 Worker-Communism 2.3.1.3 Anti-revisionism 2.3.1.4 Maoism 2.3.1.5 Fadaian 2.3.1.6 Others 2.3.2 The Socialists/Social-Democrats 2.3.3 The Religious Left 2.3.4 The Liberal-Democrats/Nationalists 2.3.5 Ethnic nationalist parties 2.3.5.1 Kurds 2.3.5.2 Baluchs 2.3.5.3 Azeris 2.3.5.4 Arabs 2.3.5.5 Turkmens 2.3.5.6 Lurs & Bakhtiaris 3 References 4 External links 5 See also

Parties inside Iran

These parties can operate inside the Islamic regime. They are separated between two factions: the Conservatives (Extremist and ultra-religious right-wing parties) and the Reformists (moderate religious right-wing parties).

Conservative Alliance

Main Parties

• Islamic Society of Engineers: secretary-general Mohammad Reza Bahonar

• Combatant Clergy Association: secretary-general Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani

• Islamic Coalition Party: secretary-general Habibollah Asgaroladi

• Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists: secretary-general Hassan Ghafurifard

• Moderation and Development Party: secretary-general Mohammad Baqer Nobakht

• Coalition of Iran's Independent Volunteers: spokesman Emad Afruq

• Iranian Nation's Welfare Party: secretary-general Khalil Ali Mohammadzadeh

Ultra-conservatives

• Fundamentalist groups: lead by Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi

Reformist Coalition

Main Parties

• Association of Combatant Clerics: secretary-general Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha

• Islamic Iran Participation Front: secretary-general Mohsen Mirdamadi

• National Confidence Party: secretary-general Mehdi Karrubi

• Executives of Construction Party: secretary-general Gholamhossein Karbaschi

• Society of Forces Following the Line of the Imam: secretary-general Hadi Khamenei

• Organisation of the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution: secretary-general Mohammad Salamati

• Islamic Labour Party: secretary-general Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh

• Workers' House: secretary-general Alireza Mahjub

• Iran Solidarity Party: secretary-general Ebrahim Asgharzadeh

• Youth Party of Iran: secretary-general Mahdi Agha-Alikhani

• Freedom Party of Iran: secretary-general Majid Mohtashami

Dissident Groups

There are many tolerated groups not allowed to participate in the elections. They are close to the reformists and grouped in a coalition named the Nationalist-Religious Forces whose spokesman is Ezzatollah Sahabi. The main party of the coalition is the Freedom Movement Party of Ebrahim Yazdi, but also the Movement of Muslim Militants of Habibollah Peyman. There is also the Kurdish United Front.

Opposition parties active in exile

Generality

Ideologies

There are 65 political parties outside Iran (they fled the Islamist Regime). Only 13 are fully active of which 4 are powerful. These 65 parties can be divided into 5 ideological branches from left to right :

• Communists (17 parties; the most important: the Hekmatist Party)
• Socialists and Social-Democrats (9 parties; the most imortant: Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian)
• Ethnic nationalists (23 parties; the main one: the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan)
• Liberal-democrats & Nationalists (13 parties; mainly the National Front of Iran and the Constitutionalist Party of Iran)
• Religious Left (3 parties; with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran)

Notability of these parties

In fact a lot of Iranians do not know the majority of these 65 exiled political parties. The parties known by nearly all Iranians are the Mojahedin, the Monarchists (around Reza Pahlavi), the National Front (known in Iran as the Jebhe-ye Melli), the Fadayan-e Khalq and the Tudeh Party. Only 4 parties out of the 65 could be considered as powerful, in order :

• the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran of Maryam Rajavi, (Religious Left)
• the Constitutionalist Party of Iran of Daryoush Homayoun, (Liberal Nationalist)
• the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) of Behrouz Khaliq (Socialist)
• the National Front of Iran of Adib Boroumand, (Liberal Nationalist)

see also List of political parties in Iran.

The rest of the Opposition is insignificant : they are rather tiny clubs of individuals than political parties and do not influence the political arena of Iran. But 9 of them are of some importance :

- The Tudeh Party and the Communist Party of Iran (of Ebrahim Alizadeh), which were important parties in the past, exist today in a very anemic state.

- The Worker-Communist Party of Iran was formerly powerful and led by the charismatic Mansoor Hekmat before splitting into three weak parties [1] when the latter died in 2002. Among the three parties the Hekmatist Party is the most vocal.

- The National Movement of Iranian Resistance (NAMIR) of Shahpour Bakhtiar [2], the Party of the Iranian Nation (PIN) of Darius and Parvaneh Foroohar and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPIK) of Abdul Rahman Qassemloo, although prominent parties in the past, have almost been destroyed with the killings of their charismatic leaders by the Islamic Republic. The NAMIR has almost ceased to exist, whereas the PIN and the DPIK struggle to expand their activities. In December 2006, the DPIK split another time into two groups.

- The Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar) has isolated itself by rejecting joint actions or even dialogue with non-communist parties (they do not have a good relation even with some communist parties deemed not too radical or "traitor" like the Tudeh Party). The Rahe Kargar is seen by many right and left parties as a sectarian and inflexible party. [3] The Party split into two groups in August 2009.

- The social-democratic Komala (not to be confused with the communist Komalah with an h), although an important party, can't be classified among the four powerful party of the Opposition cited above since its modest activities are only concentrated in the kurdish-inhabited provinces of Iran. Furthermore Komala split into two parties in August 2007[4].

- The Islamic Society of the Iranians has few members but has a prominent leader (Abolhassan Banisadr).

- The Union of People's Fedaian of Iran is the Iranian Party with the most ties with other Opposition parties (it has warm relations even with the Rahe Kargar). It has been designated as the twin sister of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian-Majority (OIPF-M) but has far fewer members. Some members told their Party will soon merge with the OIPF-M.

Important individuals without party

There are important exiled individuals with no party who are also important : Ali Afshari , Hassan Zarezadeh Ardeshir, Ahmad Batebi or Manuchehr Mohammadi from the student segment, Mohsen Sazegara, a founder of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Abdolkarim Soroush or Dariush Shayegan, influential secular and religious intellectuals, Roya Toloui, a woman activist, Akbar Ganji, the well-known political activist and journalist, Abbas Amir-Entezam, the longest political prisoner of Iran (27 years), Simin Behbahani, one of the most prominent figures in modern Persian literature, Nasser Zarafshan, a famous attorney, Abolhassan Banisadr, the first president of Iran, etc… Even among the clerics based inside and outside Iran, there are numerous radical dissidents but some are more prominent, for example : Hossein Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, Ayatollah Ganjei (exiled in Paris), Ayatollah Mehdi Haeri Khorshidi (exiled in Germany) or Hojjatoleslam Ezimi Qedimi, etc. Several mullah dissidents around the world created "the Free Muslims" : [5].

History

Past (1990-2003)

Before the year 2003, a lot of parties tried to form a coalition against the Islamic regime and failed. Only two unions succeeded; but even them - which are the National Council of Resistance of Iran and the Workers Left Unity - Iran - are just an alliance of two parties : the religious-leftist People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and the marxist Organization of Iranian People Fadaee Guerillas for the first one and the Iranian fedaian communist league and the Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar) for the latter.

Some Communists (the Tudeh Party for example), the Socialists (above all Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian-Majority), the Nationalists (for instance the National Front), the Monarchists (as the Constitutionalist Party) and the Ethnic nationalists (like the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan) several times discussed how to come together in the past, but without results, given that :

1) Almost all the Communists (for instance the Rahe Kargar [6]) are opposed to cooperating with non-communist parties.

2) The main challenge comes from the Monarchists, for leftist or some pro-republican parties are reticent to form an alliance with them.

3) Few are also opposed to dialogue with the Mojahedin.

Because of that, western journalists and Iran experts have repeatedly said that the Opposition is ineffective, discredited and inflexible.

Present (2003-2008)

However, since 2003 the leftist activists did what no others had done in the past : they created the United Republicans of Iran (URI), a federation of three pro-republican parties : [7],[8] . Over one thousand personnalities took part in the inauguration of the URI in Berlin.

At the same time, in Paris, other leftists created another alliance named the Democratic and Secular Republicans of Iran (DSRI).

The DSRI is considered more leftist than the URI and its members belong to three socialist parties : the Union of People's Fedaian of Iran, the Organization of Iranian Socialists and the Provisional Council of Iranian Left Socialists [9]. The URI is more prominent and is a federation of three parties, namely the Democratic People's Party of Iran of Babak Amirkhosravi (a separated fraction of the communist Tudeh party), the Iranian National Republicans of Hassan Shariatmadari, son of the late Grand Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari, and the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian-Majority. The Democratic People's Party of Iran has ceased to exist and was absorbed by the URI, the Iranian National Republicans (http://www.iran-jommelli.com) exists by name but all its activities is done within the URI, but the OIPF-M continues its activities inside and also outside the URI.[10].

Both the URI and the DSRI are still discussing how to forme a single union to form a strong "republican" (=leftist) force [11]. Both have also invited two ethnical parties (the DPIK and the Komala), a centrist party (the National Front of Iran), a far left party (the Provisional Council of Iranian Left Socialists) and even a conservative party (the Islamic Society of the Iranians) to these negotiations which took place on September 22 2007. [12]; [13]

Moreover, since September 2005 a greater spectrum of these exiled parties who used to be very divided (even among groups of similar philosophies) have begun to unite. Reza Pahlavi had dinner in Berlin with some of the leftists who had helped to overthrow his father, and it generated outrage on both the left and the right.

For the first time, a Republican (the late spokesman of the National Front of Iran) Parviz Varjavand wrote in an article in August 2006 [14] that Democracy is compatible with both a Constitutional Monarchy and a Republic and that the issue should not be between Constitutional Monarchy and Republic. The Green Party of Iran led by Kayvan Koboli said the same thing months before Parviz Varjavand : [15]. Heshmat Raeisi, ex-member of the Central Committee of both the Fedai and the Tudeh Party [16], participated in the sixth Congress of the (monarchist) Constitutionalist Party of Iran in November 2006 and gave a speech : [17]; in February 2007 Dariush Homayoun of the rightist Constitutionalist Party of Iran wrote a friendly letter to the major leftist party (the OIPFG (M)) [18]. Hossein Bagherzadeh of the latter party answered : [19].

Gathering together (2009)

The situation as of 2009 is clearer. Four political groups are emerging :

- a leftist bloc comprising 4 parties :

The Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) + The Union of People's Fedaian of Iran + The Provisional Council of Iranian Left Socialists + The Democratic Union of the Progressive Iranians

• (and probably in the future : the Tudeh Party, other members of both United Republicans of Iran and Democratic and Secular Republicans of Iran)

- a liberal nationalist bloc comprising 10 center-right parties :

The National Front of Iran + The Iran Party + The Party of the Iranian Nation + The National Resistance Movement of Iran + The Pan-Iranist Party + The Marze Por Gohar Party + The Democratic Front of Iran + The Liberal Democrats of Iran + The Constitutionalist Party of Iran + The Constitutional Movement of Iran-Front Line + The Flag of Freedom Organization of Iran

- a religious party : the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, the main Opposition group.

- an ethnical bloc grouped in the "Congress of Iranian Nationalities" (16 parties) :

Cultural & civil Society of Khorasani Kurds + The Kurdistan Freedom Party + The Balochistan People's Front + The Balochistan United Front-Federal Republican + The Baluchistan National Movement - Iran + The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan + The Party of United Lurestan and Bakhtiari + The Balochistan Peoples Party + The Democratic Solidarity Party of al-Ahwaz + The National Movement of Iranian Turkmenistan + The Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement + The Turkmen National Democratic Movement + The Organization for Defence of the Rights of Turkmen People + The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan + The Federal-Democratic Movement of Azerbaijan + The Azerbaijan Diplomatic Mission

Names and websites of the Opposition

Here are the names and the programs of all known Iranian political parties based in exile (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, and sometimes Turkey, Iraq, Dubai, Israel, Pakistan) :

The Communists

There are 17 Iranian communist parties. However only two out of them could be considered alive, namely the Hekmatist Party, and the Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). The Rahe Kargar, the Organization of Fedaian (Minority), the Communist Party, the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) and Azarakhsh formed a coalition named the United Supporters of Left and Communist Groups [20], [21].

Historical party

The well-known Communist Party which used to be very powerful. No longer very active. The oldest political party in Iran.

• Tudeh Party of Iran led by Mohammad Omidvar. The International Department of the Tudeh Party of Iran is headed by Navid Shomali.

http://www.tudehpartyiran.org/

Now, only a minority of the original members remained in the party. A majority left the party to pursue cultural activities or to join other political parties (as the United Republicans of Iran), but some others were expelled from the Tudeh Party created three other Tudeh groupings :

1) Tudeh path (or Rahe Tudeh) (founded by two excluded party members) [22] http://www.rahetudeh.com/

2) Tarnegashte mehr led by Afshin Razani (excluded from the party in the 1990s) http://10mehr.org/

3) People's voice (Sedaye mardom) http://www.sedayemardom.net/

Worker-Communism

The four splits of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran :

• Worker-Communist Party of Iran led by Hamid Taqvaee.

http://www.wpiran.org

• Hekmatist Party led by Koorosh Modaressi.

http://www.hekmatist.com

• Worker Communism Unity Party of Iran led by Ali Javadi.

http://www.for-abetterworld.com

• Workers Socialist Unity led by Reza Moghaddam/Iraj Azarin

http://www.wsu-iran.org/

Anti-revisionism

• Labor Party of Iran (supporting Enver Hoxha's communism).

http://www.toufan.org/

Maoism

The two Maoist parties :

• Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) with Nasrin Jazayeri

http://www.sarbedaran.org/

• Toilers Party of Iran (Hezbe Ranjbarane Iran), a 1979 split of the Tudeh Party with Younes Parsa-banab

http://www.ranjbaran.org/

Fadaian

The original communist motherparty was called Organization of Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas. Since 1980, it has split dozens of times. Today there are 7 parties, 5 of them are still communist. The other two (which constitute the large majority of the members) have evolved into democratic socialist parties.

• Organization of Fedaian (Minority)

http://www.fadaian-minority.org/

• Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas led by Ashraf Dehghani.

http://www.siahkal.com/

• Organization of Iranian People's Fedayee Guerrillas led by Mehdi Same and allied with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran in the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

http://www.fadaian.org/ or http://www.jonge-khabar.com/ or http://www.iran-nabard.com/

• Organization of Iranian Peoples Fedaii Guerrillas led by Hossein Zahri.

http://www.iranian-fedaii.de/

• Iranian fedaian communist league with Babak Rahimi and Azizeh Shahmoradi

http://fedayi.org/

Others

• The Central Committee of the Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar)

http://www.rahekargar.com/

• The Executive Organ of the Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar)

http://www.rahekargar.net

• Komalah led by Ebrahim Alizadeh. It is, according to them, the "kurdish section" of the Communist Party of Iran. In fact the Komalah and the Communist Party of Iran are the same.

http://www.komalah.org (for Komalah) and http://www.cpiran.org/ (for the Communist Party of Iran)

• Socialist Party of Iran led by Fereydoon Gilani.

http://www.jonbesh-iran.com/

• Azarakhsh

http://www.aazarakhsh.org/

The Socialists/Social-Democrats

Only the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian-Majority and the Union of People's Fedaian of Iran are active. The United Republicans of Iran (URI) and the Democratic and Secular Republicans of Iran (DSRI) are not really parties but federations of parties and both are strong. The first six parties cited below are very linked to each other.

• United Republicans of Iran (International Relations Coordinator : Mehdi Amini)

http://www.jomhouri.com/

• Democratic and Secular Republicans of Iran (spokesman : Mehrdad Darvishpour ?)

http://www.tabja.com/

• Democratic Union of the Progressive Iranians only present in Switzerland

http://www.khavaran.ch/

• Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) with Behrouz Khaliq as its secretary-general and Hassan Zahtab as its foreign relations coordinator.

http://www.kar-online.com/ or in English/French/German: http://www.fadai.org/

• Union of People's Fedaian of Iran with Parviz Navidi/Ahmad Azad.

http://www.etehadefedaian.org/

• Provisional Council of Iranian Left Socialists with Majid Zarbakhsh

http://www.tarhino.com/

• Organization of Iranian Socialists led by Mansour Bayatzadeh (their members are called Socialist Mossadeghists), close to the National Front of Iran

http://www.ois-iran.com/

• Green Party of Iran led by Kayvan Kaboli.

http://www.iran-e-sabz.org/

• Social Democratic Party of Iran led by Jalal Madani.

http://www.spiran.com/

The Religious Left

Neither secular nor Islamist. They are against the application of the Sharia but at the same time oppose everything opposed to what they call “the main principles of Islam”. They believe in the equality between men and women and at the same time their female supporters are mostly veiled. The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, which used to have an "army" in Iraq until 2003, is considered to be the main Opposition party to the Islamic Republic.

• People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran led by Maryam Rajavi.

http://www.mojahedin.org/ or http://www.hambastegimeli.com/

• Islamic Society of the Iranians led by Abolhassan Banisadr

http://enghelabe-eslami.com/ or http://www.majameeslamiiranian.com/

• The Freedom-seekers Combattants of Iran, a pro-Shariati party

http://www.samaa.org/

The Liberal-Democrats/Nationalists

Most of them are republican but some favor a constitutional monarchy as in Spain. The National Front and the Constitutionalist Party of Iran are the most active. Some of them are united in an organization called "Melliun" [23]. The National Front has the particularity of being the only opposition party to have an official bureau in Tehran and in other big cities :

• National Front of Iran led by Adib Boroumand (based in Iran)

http://www.jminews.com or http://www.jebhemelli.net/

• Marze Por Gohar Party led by Roozbeh Farahanipour

http://www.marzeporgohar.org

• Iran Party led by Nezamoddin Movahed. (a social democratic party)

http://www.melliun.org/hezbeir02.htm

• Party of the Iranian Nation led by Khosrow Seif.

http://www.melliun.org/hezbemel02.htm or https://hezbemellateiran.com/

• National Movement of Iranian Resistance led by Ali Shahandeh. Used to be very active before the assassination of Shahpour Bakhtiar and his Secretary Soroush Katibeh.

http://www.melliun.org/nehzatm.htm or http://www.namir.info/

• Pan-Iranist Party led by Zahra Gholamipour.

http://www.paniranist.org/ or http://www.paniranist.com/

• Rastakhiz Organization led by Masoud Khoshnood

http://www.rastakhiz.org/

• Constitutionalist Party of Iran (CPI) : the main Monarchist Party led by Daryoush Homayoun.

http://irancpi.net/

• The Liberal Democrats of Iran with Ramin Kamran.

http://www.iranliberal.com/

• the Democratic Front of Iran led by Heshmatollah Tabarzadi.

http://www.idfravabet.blogfa.com/

• Democrat Party of Iran led by Kaveh Shirzad.

http://www.irandp.org

• Constitutional Movement of Iran-Front Line led by Mehrdad Khonsari.

http://www.cmi-fl.com/

• Flag of Freedom Organization of Iran led by Manouchehr Ganji. Known in his Persian name : Derafshe Kaviyani.

http://www.derafsh.org/

Ethnic nationalist parties

Among the ethnic parties, only the Kurdish DPIK and Komala are active. Some of these parties formed a union called "Congress of Iranian Nationalities" whose activities are mainly done by both parties cited above : http://www.iranfederal.org/

Kurds

• Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan led by Mustafa Hejri.

http://www.kurdistanmedia.com/ or http://www.pdki.org/ (English)

• Kurdistan Democratic Party

http://kurdistanukurd.com/

• Komala, a separated fraction of Komalah, is led by Abdollah Mohtadi.

http://www.komala.org

• Pejak, a group linked to the PKK and led by Haji Ahmadi.

http://pjak.org/

• Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle

http://www.sazmanikhabat.com/

• The Revolutionary Khabat Organization of Iranian Kurdistan

http://www.khabat.org/

• Kurdistan Freedom Party

http://www.pazadik.com/

Baluchs

• People's Resistance Movement of Iran (Jundollah) led by Abdolmalek Rigi.

http://junbish.blogspot.com/

• Balochistan People's Front led by Reza Hossein Borr.

http://balochistanpeoplesfront.blogspot.com/

• Balochistan United Front (Federal Republican)

http://www.balochunitedfront.org/

• Baluchistan National Movement-Iran

http://www.zrombesh.org/

• Balochistan People's Party led by Nasser Booladei

http://www.ostomaan.org/

Azeris

• Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (GAMOH) is led by Dr. Mahmut Ali Çöhreganlı (the party is seeemingly dead)

http://www.gamoh.org

• Federal-Democratic Movement of Azerbaijan led by Mohammad Azadgar

http://www.achiq.org/

• Democratic Party of Azerbaijan

http://www.adf-mk.org/

Arabs

For more information about these parties : [24]

• Democratic Solidarity Party of Ahwaz

http://alahwaz.info

• Ahwazian Arab people’s Democratic, Popular Front

http://www.alahwaz.com

• Ahwazi Renaissance Party

http://www.al-mohamra.nu/

• Ahwaz Liberation Organisation

http://www.alahwaz-revolutionary-council.org/

Turkmens

• Organization for Defence of the Rights of Turkmen People

http://www.turkmenler.org/

• National Movement of Iranian Turkmenistan

http://www.erkinlik.org/

• Turkmen National Democratic Movement

http://www.turkmenlik.org/

Lurs & Bakhtiaris

• Party of United Lurestan and Bakhtiari led by Faramarz Bakhtiar

http://www.bakhtiar.de/1628235.htm

References

External links

• (Persian) Khane Ahzab Iran (House of Iran's political parties)

See also

• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals
• Politics of Iran
• Liberalism in Iran

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