Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude

Political party in Iran

Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude

ائتلاف رايحه خوش خدمت

President| Mehrdad Bazrpash
Spokesperson| Mohammad-Ali Ramin
Founded| 2006[1]
Dissolved| 2011
Split from| Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran[1]
Succeeded by|

* Stability Front[2]
* Monotheism and Justice Front[3]
* YEKTA Front[4]

Headquarters| Tehran, Iran
Ideology| Populism
Fundamentalism
Political position| Right-wing to far-right
Religion| Shia Islam
National affiliation| Principlists[1]
Alliance| United Front of Principlists (2008)
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The Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude,[5] the Sweet Scent of Servitude[6] or the Joyful Essence of Obedience[7] (Persian: ائتلاف رايحه خوش خدمت) was a conservative political group in Iran that supported Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government.

## 2006 local elections

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The group was founded a few months before the 2006 Iranian local elections, and was able to win seats in several City and Village Councils of Iran. They had no candidates in Ilam, Sari, Kerman, Gorgan and Khorramabad. According to Fars News Agency, the results were as follows:[8][9]

City  | Seats won

|

Tehran |

3 / 15 (20%)

Ardabil |

2 / 9 (22%)

Urmia |

1 / 9 (11%)

Isfahan |

2 / 11 (18%)

Arak |

2 / 9 (22%)

Bushehr |

1 / 7 (14%)

Kermanshah |

2 / 9 (22%)

Bandar Abbas |

2 / 9 (22%)

Tabriz |

2 / 11 (18%)

Bojnurd |

2 / 7 (29%)

Birjand |

3 / 9 (33%)

Hamedan |

4 / 9 (44%)

Yasuj |

1 / 7 (14%)

Yazd |

2 / 9 (22%)

Rasht |

1 / 9 (11%)

Mashhad |

3 / 11 (27%)

Shiraz |

2 / 11 (18%)

Zanjan |

2 / 9 (22%)

Semnan |

3 / 7 (43%)

Sanandaj |

3 / 9 (33%)

Qom |

3 / 9 (33%)

Qazvin |

0 / 9 (0%)

Shahrekord |

0 / 9 (0%)

Zahedan |

0 / 9 (0%)

## Parliament elections

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### 2008

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They competed in the 2008 Iranian legislative election as part of United Front of Conservatives.[10] After the elections, their winning candidates formed a new Parliamentary group named "Islamic Revolution", claiming to have 90 members.[1]

### 2012

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In 2010, some reports indicated a dispute inside the group,[1] and in the 2012 Iranian legislative election, some members formed Stability Front, claiming not to support the followers of Ahmadinejad.[5] Another newly formed group called Monotheism and Justice Front, was linked to Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[11]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e Farnaz Hassanalizadeh (20 October 2010). "The end of Pleasant Scent of Servitude?". Shargh (in Persian). No. 1091\. p. 1.
2. ^ Farshid Ghazanfarpoor (8 March 2015). "Principlists seeking a good deal for the elections". Shahrvand (in Persian). No. 519\. p. 2.
3. ^ "Governments and Elections". Javan Online (in Persian). 2 March 2011.
4. ^ "YEKTA's excuse to run away from the law". Iran (in Persian). No. 5955\. 17 June 2015. p. 1.
5. ^ a b "Political road map of Iran before the Parliamentary (Majlis) elections". Today's Zaman. Archived from the original on March 30, 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
6. ^ "Tehran Prosecutor Confirms Hikers' Sentences", Tehran Bureau, PBS, 20 August 2011, retrieved 11 December 2016
7. ^ Razavi, Reza (2010), "The Road to Party Politics in Iran (1979–2009)", Middle Eastern Studies, 46 (1): 79–96, doi:10.1080/00263200903432274, ISSN 1743-7881, S2CID 144106165
8. ^ آرايش سياسي منتخبان شوراها (in Persian). Ebtekar Newspaper. Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. 1385-09-28
9. ^ نتايج قطعي انتخابات شوراها در ۲۴ مركز استان (in Persian). asre-nou.net.
10. ^ "واژه نامه جریان های فعال در انتخابات ریاست جمهوری ایران - BBC Persian" (in Persian). BBC Persian. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
11. ^ تغییر نقشه سیاسی اصولگرایان در آستانه انتخابات (in Persian). BBC Persian. 12 February 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

## External links

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Electoral lists (in Persian)

* 2006 City Council of Tehran election
* 2006 City Councils of Conties elections Archived 2017-07-29 at the Wayback Machine

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Electoral alliances and lists in Iran

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Principlists|

* Association for Defence of Revolution Values (1996)
* Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader (1999)
* Coordination Council of Islamic Revolution Forces (2000)
* Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (2003)
* Coalition of Iran's Independent Volunteers (2004)
* Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude (2006)
* United Front of Principlists (2008)
* Principlists Pervasive Coalition (2008)
* Resistance Front of Islamic Iran (2011)
* Voice of Nation (2012)
* Insight and Islamic Awakening Front (2012)
* Monotheism and Justice Front (2012)
* Supporters of Justice Discourse of Islamic Revolution (2012)
* Principlists Grand Coalition (2016)
* Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces (2016)
* Service list (2017)
* Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces (2019)
* Campaign for Justice-seeking Parliament (2020)

Reformists|

* Coalition of the Oppressed and Deprived (1988)
* Coalition of Imam's Line groups (1990s)
* 2nd of Khordad Front (1999)
* Coalition For Iran (2004)
* Reformists Front (2005)
* Reformists Coalition (2006)
* Reformists Coalition (2008)
* Reformists Coalition (2013)
* List of Hope (2016)
* People's Experts (2016)
* Front of Prudence and Development (2016)
* Friends of Hashemi (2020)
* Coalition of Eight Reformist Parties (2020)

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