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## Current composition

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### Major factions

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Faction  | Ideology  | Year
founded  | Political position  | 2024 Iranian presidential election | Legislators

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Popular  | Parliament | Assembly of Experts | Expediency Discernment Council
| Reformists | Republicanism | 1997  | Centre | 16,384,403 (54.8%)  |

42 / 290

1 / 88

7 / 48

| Principlists | Islamism | 1997  | Right-wing | 13,538,179 (45.2%)  |

198 / 290

59 / 88

38 / 48

## Parties active inside Iran

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### Parliament members

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Party  | Logo  | Founded  | Leader  | Faction  | Political position  | Parliament

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| CCIRF |  | 2019  | Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel | Principlists | Right-wing |

107 / 290

| FIRS |  | 2011  | Sadegh Mahsouli | Principlists | Far-right |

79 / 290

| VNC |  | 2012  | Ali Motahari | Reformists | Centre to Centre-right |

45 / 290

| CCA |  | 1977  | Mostafa Pourmohammadi | Principlists | Centre-right to Right-wing |

13 / 290

| IND |  |  |  |  |  |

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### Principlists

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Main article: Iranian Principlists

Main active parties
Party  | Secretary-General

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Combatant Clergy Association | Mostafa Pourmohammadi
Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom | Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
Islamic Coalition Party | Asadollah Badamchian
Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution | Mohammad Javad Ameri
Front of Islamic Revolution Stability | Sadegh Mahsouli
YEKTA Front | Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee

Other parties
Party  | Secretary-General

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Islamic Society of Engineers | Mohammad-Reza Bahonar
Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution | Malek Shariati [fa]
Islamic Association of Physicians | Hossein Ali Shahriari
Islamic Society of Employees | Kamal Sajjadi
Islamic Society of Athletes | Hassan Ghafourifard
Zeynab Society | Azam Haji-Abbasi
Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists | Hassan Ghafourifard
Fadayeen of Islam Society | Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei
Development and Justice Party | Mehdi Vakilpour
Green Party | Hossein Kanani Moghaddam
Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran | Mohammad Saeed Ahadian
Modern Thinkers Party of Islamic Iran | Amir Mohebbian
Islamic Iran Freedom Party[1] | Issa Kakoui

### Reformists

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Main article: Iranian Reformists

Main active parties
Party  | Secretary-General

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Association of Combatant Clerics | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
Islamic Labour Party | Hossein Kamali
Executives of Construction Party | Gholamhossein Karbaschi
National Trust Party | Elias Hazrati
Union of Islamic Iran People Party | Ali Shakouri-Rad
NEDA Party | Sadegh Kharazi
Islamic Iran Freedom and Justice Organization | Amir Taheri
Moderation and Development Party | Mohammad Bagher Nobakht

Other parties
Party  | Secretary-General

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Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers | Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi
Islamic Association of Teachers | Abdolrazzagh Mousavi
Islamic Association of Engineers | Ali-Mohammad Gharbiani
Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society | Mohammadreza Zafarghandi
Islamic Association of University Instructors | Mahmoud Sadeghi
Association of Followers of the Imam's Line | Hadi Khamenei
Islamic Iran Solidarity Party | Ali-Asghar Ahmadi
Democracy Party | Mostafa Kavakebian
Will of the Iranian Nation Party | Ahmad Hakimipour
Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic | Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini
Islamic Assembly of Ladies | Fatemeh Karroubi
Worker House | Alireza Mahjoub
Popular Party of Reforms | Mohammad Zare Foumani

Banned parties
Party  | Secretary-General

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Islamic Iran Participation Front | Mohsen Mirdamadi
Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization | Mohammad Salamati
The Green Path of Hope | None

## Outlawed parties tolerated inside Iran

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Party  | Ideology  | Religion  | Secretary-General

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National Front | Nationalism | Secular | Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Iran Party (member of the National Front)  | Nationalism

Social Democracy

| Secular  | The party is managed by its central committee[2][3]
Party of the Iranian People (member of the National Front)  | Left-wing nationalism | Islamic  | Mohammadsadeh Maserrat
Pan-Iranist Party | Pan-Iranism | Secular | Zahra Gholamipour
Nation Party | Pan-Iranism | Secular | Khosrow Seif
Movement of Militant Muslims | Socialism | Islamic | Habibollah Peyman
Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists | Nationalism | Islamic | None
Freedom Movement of Iran | Nationalism | Islamic | Mohammad Tavasoli

## Opposition parties active in exile

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Main article: Iranian dissidents

### Monarchists/Liberal-Conservative

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All monarchist organizations are secular and support restoring the Pahlavi dynasty:

Party  | Leader  | Base

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Kingdom Assembly of Iran (Tondar)[citation needed] | Frood Fouladvand |  United States
Constitutionalist Party of Iran – Liberal Democrat | Foad Pashaie |  United States
National Council of Iran | Reza Pahlavi II |  France
Iran-Novin Party | Dr. Hamed Sheibanyrad  |  France

### Ethnic

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Party  | Ethnicity  | Leader  | Base

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Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | Kurdish | Mustafa Hijri |  Iraq
Kurdistan Democratic Party | Kurdish | Mostafa Moloudi |  Iraq
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan | Kurdish | Abdullah Mohtadi |  Iraq
Komalah Organization of the Communist Party of Iran | Kurdish | Ibrahim Alizade |  Iraq
Komala - Reform Faction | Kurdish | Omar Ilkhanizade  |  Iraq
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan - Reunification Faction | Kurdish | Abdulla Konaposhi  |  Iraq
Kurdistan Freedom Party | Kurdish | Hussein Yazdanpanah |  Iraq
Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle | Kurdish | Baba Sheikh Hosseini |  Iraq
Kurdistan Free Life Party | Kurdish | Siamand Moini and Zîlan Vejîn |  Turkey
Lorestan Party of Iran | Lurs | Faramarz Bakhtiar |  Germany
Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement | Azeri | Mahmudali Chehregani |  Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization | Azeri | Un­known |  Azerbaijan
South Azerbaijan National Liberation Movement | Azeri | Piruz Dilanchi |  Azerbaijan

### Leftists

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Party  | Leader  | Base

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* People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
* National Council of Resistance of Iran

| Maryam Rajavi |  France
Albania
Tudeh Party of Iran | Mohammad Omidvar |  Germany
United Kingdom
Communist Party of Iran | Un­known | Un­known
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) | Un­known | Un­known
Laborers' Party of Iran | Un­known |  Sweden
Labour Party of Iran (Toufan) | Un­known |  Germany
Worker-communist Party of Iran | Hamid Taqvaee |  Germany
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist | Rahman Hosseinzadeh |  Sweden
Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas | Ashraf Dehghani |  United Kingdom
Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian – Majority | Behrouz Khaliq |  Germany
Fedaian Organisation – Minority | Akbar Kamyabi |  Netherlands
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Identity[citation needed] | Mehdi Same |  France
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas[citation needed] | Hossein Zohari |  Germany
Worker's Way | Un­known |  Germany
Socialist Workers' Party of Iran | Un­known |  United Kingdom

### Others

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Party  | Ideology  | Leader  | Base

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Glorious Frontiers Party[citation needed] | Nationalism | Roozbeh Farahanipour |  United States
Iranian Secular Democratic Party | Secularism | Esmail Nooriala |  USA
Green Party of Iran | Green | Kazem Moussavi |  Germany
Farashgard | Liberalism | 40 Activists |  USA
Social Democratic and Laïc Party of Iran (member of National Front (Iran)) | Social democracy

Secularism Nationalism

| Farhang Ghasemi |  France

### Politically active groups

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* ADFI
* NUFDI

## List of parties by political position

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Political position key

* Far left

Left

Centre left

Centre

Centre right

Right

Far right

Syncretic

Party  | Leader  | Founded

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| CCA | Mostafa Pourmohammadi | 1977
| SST | Hashem Hosseini Bushehri | 1961
| ICP | Asadollah Badamchian | 1963
| SDIR | Mohammad Javad Ameri | 1995
| FIRS | Sadegh Mahsouli | 2011
| FCETI | Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee | 2015
| ISE | Mohammad Reza Bahonar | 1991
| SPIR | Malek Shariati | 2008
| IAP | Hossein-Ali Shahriyari | 1993
| ISE | Kamal Sajjadi | 1994
| ISA | Hassan Ghafourifard | 1998
| ZS | Aʿzam Hājī-Abbāsī | 1986
| AIRL | Hassan Ghafourifard | 2003
| SFI | Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei | 1946
| DJP | Mehdi Vakilpour | 2007
| Green Party | Hossein Kanani Moghaddam | 1999
| CCA | Mohammad Saeed Ahadian | 2008
| MTPI | Amir Mohebbian | 2006
| ACC | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha | 1988
| MTPI | Hossein Kamali | 1998
| ECP | Hossein Marashi | 1996
| MTPI | Elias Hazrati | 2005
| NUP | Azar Mansouri | 2015
| NEDA | Shahabeddin Tabatabaei | 2014
| FGO | Mehdi Moghaddari | 1997
| MDP | Hassan Rouhani | 1999
| IAT | Abdolrazzagh Mousavi | 1999
| IAE | Ebrahim Asgharzadeh | 1977
| IAUI | Mahmoud Sadeghi | 1991
| AFIL | Hadi Khamenei | 1991
| ISP | Mohammad Salari | 1998
| Democracy Party | Mostafa Kavakebian | 1999
| HAMA | Ahmad Hakimipour | 1990
| IAL | Fatemeh Karroubi | 1998
| Worker House | Alireza Mahjoub | 1958
| PPR | Mohammad Zare Foumani | 2012
| IPF | Mohsen Mirdamadi | 1998
| MIRO | Mohammad Salamati | 1991
| GPH | Mir-Hossein Mousavi | 2009
| National Front | Seyed Hossein Mousavian | 1949
| Iran Party | Bagher Ghadiri-Asl | 1941
| Party of the Iranian People | Mohammadsadeh Maserrat | 1949
| Pan-Iranist Party | Dr. Sohrab Azam Zangane | 1941
| Nation Party | Khosrow Seif | 1951
| MMM | Habibollah Payman | 1977
| CNRA | Ezzatollah Sahabi | 2000
| FMI | Mohammad Tavasoli | 1961
| Tondar | Jamshid Sharmahd | 2004
| CPI | Fouad Pashaei | 1994
| NCI | Reza Pahlavi | 2013
| PDKI | Mustafa Hijri | 1945
| KDP | Khalid Azizi | 2006
| Komala | Abdullah Mohtadi | 1979
| KCPI | Ibrahim Alizade | 1984
| KTK | Omar Ilkhanizade | 2007
| KPKRF | Abdulla Konaposhi | 2008
| PAK | Hussein Yazdanpanah | 1991
| Khabat | Babeshekh Hosseini | 1980
| PJAK | Peyman Viyan | 2004
| SANAM | Mahmudali Chehregani | 2002
| ANRO | Babek Chalabiyanli | 2006
| PMOI | Maryam Rajavi | 1965
| TP | Navid Shomali | 1941
| CPI | Central committee | 1983
| CPIMLM |  | 2001
| LPI |  | 1979
| Toufan |  | 1965
| WCP | Hamid Taqvaee | 1991
| WCP-H | Jamal Kamangar | 2004
| IFPG | Ashraf Dehghani | 1979
| OIPFM | Behruz Khaligh | 1980
| FOM | Akbar Kāmyābi | 1987
| OIPFG-FIP | Mehdi Sāme | 1983
| OIPFG | Ḥosayn Zohari | 1985
| WW |  | 1978
| SWPI | Jamal Kamangar | 1979
| GFP | Roozbeh Farahanipour | 1998
| GPI | Kazem Moussavi | 1999
| IR |  | 2018

## See also

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* Politics of Iran
* List of extensive Iranian ground operations in the Iran-Iraq war

## References

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1. ^ Rohollah Faghihi (9 September 2015), "Tehran's ever-ambitious mayor", Al-Monitor, retrieved 1 June 2017
2. ^ "درگذشت دکتر باقر قدیری اصل دبیرکل فقید حزب ایران و عضو شورای مرکزی جبهه ملی ایران – تارنماي رسمي جبهه ملي ايران- تهران" (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-11-22.
3. ^ "اطلاعیه درباره مدیریت شورایی حزب ایران سال ۱۳۹۷". حزب ایران (in Persian). 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2023-11-22.

## Further reading

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Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-10134-7

## External links

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* Donahue, Casey (2020) Profiles: Iranian Opposition Groups. The Iran Primer. United States Institute for Peace.

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Principlists|

* The Two Societies
* Combatant Clergy Association
* Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom
* Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader
* Islamic Coalition Party
* Islamic Society of Engineers
* Islamic Association of Physicians of Iran
* Islamic Society of Students
* Islamic Society of Employees
* Islamic Society of Athletes
* Zeynab Society
* Front of Transformationalist Principlists
* Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution
* Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution
* Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists
* Summit of Freethinkers Party
* Fadayeen of Islam Society
* Ansar-e Hezbollah
* Front of Islamic Revolution Stability
* Resistance Front of Islamic Iran
* Development and Justice Party
* Green Party
* Progress and Justice Society of Islamic Iran
* Modern Thinkers Party of Islamic Iran
* YEKTA Front

Reformists|

* Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front
* Association of Combatant Clerics
* Executives of Construction Party
* Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers
* Islamic Association of Teachers
* Islamic Association of Engineers
* Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society
* Islamic Association of University Instructors
* Association of Followers of the Imam's Line
* Islamic Iran Solidarity Party
* Democracy Party
* Will of the Iranian Nation Party
* Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic
* Islamic Assembly of Ladies
* Office for Strengthening Unity
* Islamic Labour Party
* Worker House
* Islamic Iran Freedom and Justice Organization
* Popular Party of Reforms
* Iranian Call and Reform Organization
* Kurdish United Front
* Moderation and Development Party
* National Trust Party
* The Green Path of Hope
* NEDA Party
* Union of Islamic Iran People Party

Anti-establishment|

* National Front
* Iran Party
* Party of the Iranian People
* Freedom Movement
* Movement of Militant Muslims
* Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists
* Pan-Iranist Party
* Nation Party of Iran

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Leftists|

* People's Mojahedin
* National Council of Resistance
* Tudeh Party
* Communist Party
* Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
* Union of People's Fedaian of Iran
* Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority)
* Fedaian Organisation (Minority)
* Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
* Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform
* Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (1985)
* Workers Left Unity – Iran
* Worker's Way
* Socialist Workers' Party
* Worker-Communist Party
* Worker-Communist Party – Hekmatist
* Labour Party
* Laborers' Party

Liberal democrats|

* Glorious Frontiers Party
* Green Party
* United Republicans

Monarchists|

* National Council of Iran
* Constitutionalist Party
* Kingdom Assembly of Iran

Ethnic groups|

* Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
* Komala
* PIK
* CPI
* KTK
* Kurdistan Freedom Party
* Kurdistan Free Life Party
* Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle
* Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement
* Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization
* Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz
* National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz

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* Defunct parties

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Qajar monarchy|

* Social Democratic Party
* Socialist Revolutionary Party
* Democrat Party
* Moderate Socialists Party
* Union and Progress Party
* Progressives Party
* Unified Socialist Party
* Social Reformers Party
* Learned Council
* Revival Party
* Reformers' Party
* Socialist Party
* Communist Party
* Young Communist League
* Armenian Revolutionary Federation
* Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
* Revolutionary Republican Party

Pahlavi monarchy|

* New Iran Party
* Progress Party
* Justice Party
* Peykar Party
* Motherland Party
* Jungle Party
* Azure Party
* National Union Party
* National Will Party
* Azerbaijani Democratic Party
* Democrat Party
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* Aria Party
* Society of Muslim Warriors
* Toilers Party
* Third Force
* League of Iranian Socialists
* Organization of Communist Revolutionaries
* Islamic Nations Party
* JAMA
* Union of Communist Militants
* Union of Iranian Communists
* Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
* People's Democratic Front
* Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
* Organization of Working-class Freedom Fighters
* Nationalists' Party
* New Iran Party
* People's Party
* Iranians' Party
* Rastakhiz Party

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* Coalition of Islamic Parties
* Quintuple Coalition
* Grand coalition
* Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President
* Eponym Group
* Muslim People's Republic Party
* National Democratic Front
* Radical Movement of Iran
* People's Revolutionary Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran
* Azadegan Organization
* Front for the Liberation of Iran
* Islamic Republican Party
* Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization
* Coalition of the Oppressed and Deprived
* Coalition of Imam's Line groups
* Association for Defence of Revolution Values
* Islamic Reconciliation Party
* Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization
* Islamic Iran Participation Front

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