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Political parties in Iran lists political parties in Iran. Iran is a state with regular presidential and parliamentary elections. The system as a whole is presently a republic based on Islamist fundamentalists. A limited number of opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. The post of Supreme Leader (Persian: ولی Ùقیه or رهبر, Rahbar, literally leader) was created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the highest ranking political authority of the nation (see Guardianship of the jurists (doctrine)). Other Persian terms include the Valiye-Faqih (sometimes shortened to Faqih) or the Jurisprudent...
Grand Akhund Âyatollâh (Persian: آیت‌الله سید علی Øسینی خامنه‌ای Ä€yatollÄh Seyyed `AlÄ« ḤoseynÄ« KhÄmeneÄ«) (Also known as : Seyyed Ali Khamenei) born 17 July 1939[1], was Supreme Leader of Iran and was the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. ...
The President of Iran holds a very important office in Irans political establishment. ...
(Persian: ‎ ​, IPA: ), transcribed into English as Mahmud or Mahmood, Ahmadinezhad, Ahmadi-Nejad, Ahmadi Nejad, Ahmady Nejad) (born October 28, 1956) is the current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...
The Assembly of Experts (also Assembly of Experts for the Leadership) of Iran (Persian: مجلس خبرگان رهبری, Majles-e-Khobregan), is a congressional body for selecting the Supreme Leader and supervising his activities. ...
Ayatollah Ali Meshkini is an Iranian cleric and politician. ...
The Guardian Council of the Constitution [1] (Persian: شورای نگهبان قانون اساسی) is an unelected high chamber within the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...
Ahmad Jannati (born in Esfahan in 1926) (Persian: ‎ ​) is an Iranian ayatollah and political figure. ...
The Expediency Discernment Council of the System [1](Persian: مجمع تشخیص مصلØت نظام), is an unelected[2] establishment in the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran created on 6 February 1988[3]. Its purpose is to resolve differences or conflicts between the Majlis and the Council of Guardians, and also to serve as a...
President Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Bahramani kharkosteh (Persian: اکبر هاشمی بهرمانی), famously known as Hashemi Rafsanjani (هاشمی رفسنجانی) (born August 25, 1934) is one of the most...
مجلس شورای اسلامی - The Majles; Irans Parliament. ...
Haddad-Adel Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel (غلامعلی Øداد عادل in Persian) born in 1945 in Tehran, Iran, is the chairman of the Iranian Parliament. ...
The current judicial system of Iran was implemented and established by Ali Akbar Davar and some of his contemporaries. ...
Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (آیت‌الله سید Ù…Øمود هاشمی شاهرودی) (Born 1948 in Najaf, Iraq) is an Iranian politician and Shia cleric. ...
Supreme National Security Council is a body within the Islamic Republic of Iran the secretary whereof is Ali Larijani. ...
Ali Larijani while lecturing for his presidential campaign at Sharif University of Technology in March, 2005. ...
The Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (وزارت اطلاعات), is the primary intelligence agency of Iran. ...
The December 1979 constitution, and its 1989 amendment, define the political, economic, and social order of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...
City and Village Councils (full title is: Provincial, City, District and Village Councils) are local councils which are elected by public vote in all cities and villages throughout Iran. ...
Politics of Iran Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Iran ...
Iranian presidential election of 1997 took place on May 23, 1997, which resulted in an unpredicted win for the reformist candidate Mohammad Khatami. ...
Elections to the Majlis of Iran were held on February 20, 2004. ...
The Iranian presidential election of 2005, the ninth presidential election in Iranian history, took place in two rounds, first on June 17, 2005, and then as a run-off on June 24. ...
The Iranian Assembly of Experts election of 2006 is planned to take place on December 15, 2006. ...
The Iranian City and Village Councils election of 2006 is planned to take place on December 15, 2006. ...
The newly renovated building of Irans Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses pre-Islamic Persian architecture extensively in its facade. ...
This article is about the current international crisis related to Iran. ...
Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ...
// Political scientists have developed concepts of different ideal types of political parties in order to better compare them with each other. ...
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Parties inside Iran It is difficult to get a clear view on Iranian political parties. There are no "opposition parties" in Iran as all must make commitment to absolute rule by the Supreme Leader.[citation needed]
Conservative Alliance - See also: Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran
The Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (ائتلاف آبادگران ایران اسلامی; Etelāf-e Ābādgarān-e Īrān-e Esl...
Main Parties - Islamic Coalition Party : secretary-general Habibollah Asgarowladi
- Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists : secretary-general Hasan Ghaffuri-Fard
- Moderation and Development Party : secretary-general Mohammad Baqer Nowbakht
- E'telaf-e Khedmatgozaran-e Mostaqel-e Iran : spokesman Emad Afruq
- Iranian Nation's Welfare Party : secretary-general Khalil Ali Mohammadzadeh
The Militant Clergy Association (Jamee-ye Rowhaniyat-e Mobarez), is a political party in Iran. ...
The Etelaf-e Khedmatgozaran-e Mostaqel-e Iran is a political party in Iran. ...
Ultra-conservatives Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi (Persian: Ù…Øمد تقی Ù…ØµØ¨Ø§Ø ÛŒØ²Ø¯ÛŒ) (born 1934) is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician. ...
Reformist Coalition -
Second of Khordad Movement refers to a movement started by 6th presidental election in Iran. ...
Main Parties - National Confidence Party : secretary-general Mehdi Karrubi (outgoing majlis speaker)
- Society of Forces Following the Line of the Imam : secretary-general Hadi Khamenei (supreme leader's brother)
- Organisation of the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution : secretary-general Mohammad Salamati
- Islamic Labour Party : secretary-general Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh, outgoing deputy for Tehran
- Workers' House : secretary-general Alireza Mahjub, outgoing deputy for Tehran
- Islamic Iran Solidarity Party : secretary-general Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
The Iranian Militant Clerics Society (مجمع روØانیون مبارز; majma-e rowhÄniyÅ«n-e mobÄrez), which can also be translated as the Assembly of Militant Clerics and Forum of Militant Clergy is a left wing pro-reform Iranian political party. ...
The Islamic Iran Participation Front (Jebheye Mosharekate Iran-e Eslaami, جبهه مشارکت ایران اسلامی in Persian) is a reformist political party in Iran. ...
The Executives of Construction Party (Øزب کارگزاران سازندگی) is a political party in Iran, founded by several members of the cabinet of the then-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. ...
Dissident Groups There are a few non-allowed groups like the Freedom Movement Party of Ebrahim Yazdi and the National Religious Forces of Ezzatollah Sahabi. These groups, although non tolerated, are not openely opposed to the Velayate Motlaqe Faqih system.[citation needed]. They are religious (that's why they are allowed to stay in Iran unlike all the secular Opposition) but are close to the dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri.[citation needed] Ebrahim Yazdi (ابراهیم یزدی; born 1931 in Qazvin) is a Persian politician, the Secretary General of Freedom Movement Party, a party which is considered illegal by some Iranian officials. ...
Ezzatollah Sahabi (Born 1930 in Tehran, Iran) is a Persian politician, former minister and former Parliament member. ...
Montazeri is an Iranian surname. ...
Opposition parties active in exile There are specialized sites in which the articles of the different opposition groups are published : especially [[1]] but also [[2]] and [[3]].
Generality
Ideologies There are roughly 50 "parties" outside Iran which can be divided into 5 ideological branches from left to right :
- the Communists (19 parties)
- the Social-Democrats (10 parties)
- the Muslim-Democrats (Conservatives) (3 parties)
- the Republican Nationalists (Center-Left or Center-Right) (10 parties)
- the Monarchist Nationalists (Liberal-Democrats) (7 parties)
Notoriety of these parties In fact a lot of Iranians do not know the majority of these 50 exiled political parties. The parties known by all Iranians are People's Mujahedin of Iran, the Monarchists (falsely believed to be one party), the National Front (known in Iran as the Mossadeghists), the Fadayan-e Khalq and the Tudeh Party (today an agonizing party but still considered by many to be the "true" and most powerful Communist Party). For example, few Iranians are aware of the existence of the Hekmatist Party although the latter is well active outside Iran, and much more dynamic than the Tudeh. Only 6 parties out of the 50 could be considered powerful, in order :
- the People's Mujahedin of Iran of Maryam Rajavi, (Conservative)
- the Constitutionalist Party of Iran of Reza Pahlavi, (Democrat-Liberal)
- the United Republicans of Iran, (Social-Democratic) and its twin brother the Democratic and Secular Republicans of Iran (Socialist)
- the National Front of Iran of Parviz Varjavand, (Center-Left Nationalist)
- the Hekmatist Party of Koorosh Modaressi, (Communist).
The rest of the Opposition is insignificant : for example the "Labor Party", or the "Green Party", or the "Liberal Democratic Party", etc, are more very little associations than political parties and do not influence at all the political arena of Iran. But 7 of them are of some importance :
- The Tudeh Party and the Communist Party of Iran (Ebrahim Alizadeh), which were important parties in the past, exist in a very anemic state. According to Alexa_Internet, the website of the Communist Party of Iran is the most visited compared to the other parties. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
- The Pan-Iranist Party has always been a dynamic but too small party.
- The National Movement of Iranian Resistance (NAMIR) of Shahpour Bakhtiar [[4]] and the DPIK of Abdul Rahman Qasimlo, although prominent parties in the past, have almost been destroyed with the killings of their charismatic leaders by the Islamic Republic. The NAMIR has ceased its activities, whereas the DPIK struggles to expand its activities. Recently, in December 2006, this party has split into two groups : the DPIK and the DPIK (Ararat).
- The Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar) has isolated itself by severely criticizing other exiled parties. The Rahe Kargar is seen by many right and left parties as a very radical and inflexible party.
- The Komala, although an important party, can't be classified among the six most powerful party cited above since its activities are only concentrated in the Kurdistan province of Iran.
Important individuals without party There are important exiled individuals with no party who are also important : Ali Afshari, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, 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, 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 Mehdi Haeri Khorshidi (exiled in Germany) or Hojjatoleslam Ezimi Qedimi, etc. Several mullah dissidents around the world created "the Free Muslims" : [[5]]. Ali Afshari Ali Afshari (Persian: علی اÙشاری; born 1973)has become one of the most recognizable faces within Iran’s reform movement. ...
Amir Abbas Fakhravar (Persian: ‎ ​) (born 1976 in Tehran), is an Iranian activist, now based in Washington, DC. Fakhravar is a strong supporter of American plans for regime change in Iran[1]. He left Iran legally from Shiraz to Dubai. ...
Ahmad Batebi, A symbol of Irans reformist movement appeard on the cover of The Economist magazine. ...
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara during an interview in Washington Institute for Near East Policy. ...
Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo (Persian: رامین جهانبگلو , born 1961 in Tehran) is an Iranian political philosopher and a university professor. ...
Image:Soroush. ...
Dariush Shayegan is one of Irans prominent thinkers and one of the contemporary worlds most influential cultural theorists and comparative philosophers. ...
Roya Toloui, (1966- ), is a prominent Kurdish journalist, human rights activist and feminist. ...
Akbar Ganji, on the day of his release Akbar Ganji (Persian: اکبر گنجی , born 31 January 1960 in Qazvin) is an Iranian journalist and writer. ...
Abbas Amir-Entezam(in Persian: عباس امیر انتظام) was the spokesman and the secretary of the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. ...
Simin Behbahani (in Persian: سیمین بهبهانی; born in 1927, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian poetess. ...
Abolhassan Banisadr Abolhassan Banisadr (Persian: ابوالØسن بنی‌صدر;born March 22, 1933) was the first elected President of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. ...
Son of deceased terrorist Ayatollah Khomeini. ...
Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi is an Iranian Muslim cleric who advocates the separation of religion and politics. ...
History
Past A lot of parties tried to unite in the past and failed. Very few succeeded like the National Council of Resistance of Iran and the Workers Left Unity - Iran but they were (and are) only a union of two parties : the conservative People's Mujahedin 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. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Workers Left Unity - Iran is an Iranian far left political party in exile. ...
Since 2003 the pro-republican (mostly leftist) activists did what no others had done in the past : they created the United Republicans of Iran, a federation of pro-republican parties : [[6]]. To know more about it : [[7]]
Some Communists (the Tudeh Party for example), the Social-democrats (above all the United Republicans), the Republican Nationalists (for instance the National Front) and the Monarchist Nationalists (among them, the Constitutionalist Party) have several times discussed how to come together in the past without results, given that :
1) Many Communists (for instance the Rahe Kargar [[8]] or the Worker-communist party) 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 Mujahedin (although this is a less controversial issue compared to the Monarchists).
Because of that, western journalists and Iran experts have repeatedly said that the Opposition is ineffective, discredited and inflexible.
Present However there are news that since September 2005 some of these exiled parties who used to be very divided (even among groups of similar philosophies) have begun to unite.
A huge gathering of all important Iranian parties and activists (including the monarchists and rightist parties like the Pan-Iranist Party) called "Neshaste Landan" took place in London for the first time ever in June 2006.
Before, some discussions had been held in Paris (Neshaste Paris) and later in Berlin (Neshaste Berlin). Since that time, cooperation and dialogue between them has accelerated. For the first time, a Republican (the spokesman of the National Front of Iran) Parviz Varjavand wrote in an article in August 2006 [[9]] that Democracy is compatible with both a Constitutional Monarchy and a Republic and that the issue should not between Constitutional Monarchy and Republic. The Green Party of Iran led by Kayvan Koboli said the same thing months before Parviz Varjavand : [[10]]. Recently, Heshmat Raeisi, ex-member of the Central Committee of both the Fedai and the Tudeh Party [[11]], participated in the sixth Congress of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran in November 2006 and gave a speech : [[12]]
This "Neshaste Landan" has been considered "historical" in the history of the Iranian Opposition by all political tendencies and has a special and daily updated website : http://neshastelondon.info
But it hasn't produced any results until now. And the name of all the parties which took part in this gathering is not known (it seems the Mujahedin didn't participate in this gathering : [[13]]). The parties known to have participated in it are : the Constitutionalist party, the OIPFG (M), the National Republicans, the DPIK, the Komala, the Balochistan United Front of Iran [[14]]. The Democratic Front of Iran has also participated in it [[15]]. Some have said the National Front of Iran was there too. So far, they managed to choose a nine-member council charged with organizing a large congress within the next months to discuss and try to put in place an Administration that will take over in the event the Islamic Republic vanish : Victoria Azad, Shahryar Ahi, Hossein Bagherzadeh, Ramin Parham, Abdolsattar Doshooki, Kambiz Roosta, Iman Forootan, Moshallah Salimi, Ali-Reza Nourizadeh [[16]].
 Links of the exiled political parties Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (832x560, 100 KB)Author : me (Wikipediairan) thanks to Bitmap software. ...
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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 19 Iranian communist parties. However only three out of them could be considered active, namely the Hekmatist Party, the Komala and the Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar).
Historical party The well-known Communist Party which used to be very powerful. No longer very active. http://www.tudehpartyiran.org/ or http://www.peykiran.net/ The Tudeh Party of Iran (f. ...
- Rahe Tudeh, a seperated fraction of the Tudeh Party.
http://www.rahetudeh.com/
Hekmatism The two splits of the communists who follow the teachings of Mansour Hekmat : http://www.wpiran.org The Worker-Communist Party of Iran (Persian: Øزب کمونیست کارگران ایران) is a political party that seeks the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the establishment of a Socialist Republic of Iran in its place. ...
- Hekmatist Party led by Koorosh Modaressi.
http://www.hekmatist.com The Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist is an opposition Iranian political party in exile. ...
Maoism The two Maoist parties : - Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) previously known as Sarbedaran.
http://www.sarbedaran.org/ The Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) is an Iranian communist party working in opposition to the govenment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...
- Toilers Party of Iran (Hezbe Ranjbarane Iran)
http://www.ranjbaran.org/
Fadaian The communist motherparty called Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas has split 8 times and 6 of them are still communist. The 2 others belong to the social-democratic family today. http://www.fadaian-minority.org/ To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...
- Minority's Cell led by Mastoureh Ahmadzadeh
http://www.hasteh.com/ http://www.siahkal.com/ Iranian Peoples Fadaee Guerrillas (Persian: چريك فدايان خلق ايران) [Charik hā-i fidāy-i khalq-i Īrān, IPFG] is an Iranian opposition organization which fought against the governments of...
http://www.iran-nabard.com/ To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
- Organisation of Iranian Peoples Fedaii Guerrillas led by Hossein Zahri.
http://www.iranian-fedaii.de/ - Iranian fedaian communist league
http://fedayi.org/
Others - Organization of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar) led by Mohammad-Reza Shalgooni
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) Komalah (Komele in Kurdish) is a Marxist Kurdish opposition group. ...
The Communist Party of Iran was an Iranian communist party. ...
- Komala, a seperated fraction of Komalah, is led by Abdollah Mohtadi.
http://www.komala.org - Labor Party of Iran (or Toufan, supporting Enver Hoxha's communism).
http://www.toufan.org/ - Provisional Council of Iranian Left Socialists
http://www.tarhino.com/ - Socialist Party of Iran of Fereydoon Gilani.
http://www.jonbesh-iran.com/ http://www.wsu-iran.org/
The Social-Democrats Only the United Republicans of Iran (URI) and the Democratic and Secular Republicans of Iran (DSRI) could be considered active. It should be noted that both are not really parties but federations of parties and individuals. The DSRI is sometimes described as a marxist group and is considered more radical than the URI. Its members belong to three leftist parties : the Union of People's Fedaian of Iran, the Organization of Iranian Socialists and the communist Provisional Council of Iranian Left Socialists. 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 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. [[17]]. Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari (1904 - 1985) was among the most senior leading Shia clerics in Iran and Iraq. ...
- United Republicans of Iran
http://www.jomhouri.com/ - Democratic and Secular Republicans of Iran
http://www.sedaye-ma.org/ http://www.fadai.org/ OIPFG symbol The Organization of Iranian Peoples Fedai Guerrillas emerged as radical Marxist-Leninist movement in Iran in 1971, formed to overthrow the Pahlavi regime. ...
- Union of People's Fedaian of Iran with Pirouz Navidi and Ahmad Azad.
http://www.etehadefedaian.org/ - 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/ http://www.iran-e-sabz.org/ The Green Party of Iran (Hezb-e-sabz Hayeh Iran) is a political party in Iran. ...
- Social Democratic Party of Iran led by Jalal Madani/Khosro Shakeri.
http://www.spiran.com/ http://www.pdki.org/ The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran is a Kurdish opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a democratic federal republic of Iran. ...
- Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (Ararat), a separated fraction of the DPIK created in December 2006.
http://pdka.blogfa.com/ - Balochistan United Front of Iran led by Abdolsattar Doshooki.
http://www.balochfront.com/
The Muslim-Democrats (Conservatives) Neither secular nor islamist. They are against the application of the Sharia but at the same time oppose everything opposed to the main principles of Islam. Note : they believe in the equality between men and women. The People's Mujahedin of Iran, which used to have an "army" in Iraq, is considered to be the best organized opposition group of Iran. The two other groups are unknown and are rather small associations. http://www.mojahedin.org/ or http://www.hambastegimeli.com/ MKO Logo The Peoples Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) (Persian: سازمان مجاهدين خلق ايران) is a militant organization that advocates overthrowing the government in the Islamic Republic of Iran and replacing it with its own leadership[1]. It is a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an umbrella coalition. ...
And two pro-Shariati and anti-clerical groups (their motto is "Islam without mullahs") :
- Muslim Socialist Council, leftist
http://www.smtohidi.org/ - Tachye Alavi Movement, centrist
http://www.nehzatetashyealavi.com/
The Republican Nationalists Among them, the National Front is the most active. The Republican Nationalists have many contacts inside Iran and can be divided between two factions : the historical "Mossadeghists" and the new-born Liberals.
The Mossadeghists They are united in an organization called "Melliun" [[18]]. They have the particularity of being the only opposition parties to be openly present in Iran (with the Pan-Iranist Party): http://www.jebhemelli.net/ or http://www.jebhemelli.org/ or http://www.jebhe.org/ The Iranian National Front was a nationalist coalition of political parties in Iran during the late 1940s and early 1950s that suppported oil nationalization. ...
- Iran Party (dead?) led by Amir Bakhtiar.
http://www.melliun.org/hezbeir02.htm or http://www.hezbeiran.persianblog.com/ http://www.melliun.org/hezbemel02.htm or https://hezbemellateiran.com/ Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran (Persian Øزب ملت ایران, properly transliterated as Party of the Iranian Nation) also known as Nation Party of Iran or Iran Nation Party (INP) is a liberal nationalist political party seeking secular democracy and separation of church and state in Iran. ...
http://www.mossadegh.org/
The Liberals They were created after the 1979 Revolution and thus were not present during the Mossadegh era. - Iranian National Secular Party led by Aryo Pirouznia (the newest Iranian political party in exile) [[19]]
??? http://www.marzeporgohar.org The Marze Por Gohar Party is an Iranian political party Their motto is Iranians for a secular republic The party was founded on July 8th, 1998 in Tehran, Iran. ...
- Liberal Democratic Party of Iran
http://www.iranliberal.com/ - Azadegan led by Assad Homayoun.
http://www.azadeganiran.com/ - the Democratic Front of Iran led by Omid Abbas-Gholinejad.
http://www.idfravabet.blogfa.com/ - Democrat Party of Iran led by Kaveh Shirzad.
http://www.irandp.org
The Monarchist Nationalists Only the Constitutionalist Party of Iran is active. Except the Pan-Iranist Party, all the others are considered to be almost dead. Reza Cyrus Pahlavi II is accepted as the Emperor (Shahanshah) of Persia : http://www.rezapahlavi.org Reza Pahlavi (Persian: رضا پهلوی, born October 31, 1960), is the former Crown Prince of Iran, the elder son of late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Empress Consort, Farah Diba. ...
http://irancpi.net/ It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Constitutionalist Party of Iran. ...
Daryoush Homayoun is an Iranian journalist, author, intellectual, and politician. ...
- United Front of Iranian Nationalists led by Ali Befroei.
http://en.ufin.org - Constitutional Movement of Iran-Front Line led by Mehrdad Khonsari.
http://www.cmi-fl.com/etelaieh.html and http://www.cmi-fl.com/mosahebeh.html - Flag of Freedom Organization of Iran led by Manouchehr Ganji. Known in his persian name : Derafshe Kaviyani.
http://www.derafsh.org/ - Iranian Motherland Party led by Amir Sepehr.
http://www.hezbemihan.org/ - Pan-Iranist Party led by Mohsen Pezeshkpour.
http://www.paniranist.org/ or http://www.paniranism.org/ or http://www.paniranist.com/ This article or section is incomplete and may require expansion and/or cleanup. ...
- 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. This Party is a member of the "Melliun".
http://www.melliun.org/nehzatm.htm or http://www.namir.info/ The National Movement of Iranian Resistance (NAMIR) was founded in the early 1980s by Dr. Shapour Bakhtiar, the last prime minister of Iran under the Monarchy, before it was destroyed in the Feb. ...
Most visited political parties' websites According to Alexa_Internet, only 16 of these parties are among the top 1,000,000 most visited. None of these parties are among the top 100,000 which indicates the low level of their followers and the difficulties in Iran to read them because all of them are censored inside Iran (there are ways to circumvent the censorship). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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