Association for Defence of Revolution Values

{{Infobox political party

| name = Population for Defence of Islamic Revolution Values

| native_name = جمعیت دفاع از ارزش‌های انقلاب اسلامی

| native_name_lang = fa

| secretary_general = Mohammad Reyshahri

| leader1_title = Deputy

| leader1_name = Ruhollah Hosseinian

| founded = {{start date|1996|02|17}}{{cite web|language=fa|url=http://www.pajoohe.com/fa/index.php?Page=definition&UID=40357|title=Population for Defence of Islamic Revolution Values|publisher=Baqir al-Ulum Research Center|access-date=21 August 2015|author=Mohammad Ali Zandi}}

| legalised = {{start date|1997|10|14}}{{cite web|url=http://www.parstimes.com/politics/legally_registered_parties.html|work=Khorasan Newspaper|title=List of Legally Registered Parties in Iran|publisher=Pars Times|access-date=21 August 2015|number=14759|page=4|date=July 30, 2000}}

| dissolved = {{end date|1999|11|15}}

| headquarters = Tehran, Iran

| newspaper = Arzeshha

| national = Principlists

| ideology = Cultural conservatism
Social justice

| religion = Islam

| position = Right-wing

| country = Iran

}}

Association for Defence of Islamic Revolution Values ({{langx|fa|جمعیت دفاع از ارزش‌های انقلاب اسلامی}}; Jam`īyat-e Defā` az Arzeshhā-ye Enqelāb-e Eslāmī) was a neo-principlist{{Citation|first1=Bayram|last1=Sinkaya|title=The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|pages=137|volume=25|series=Iranian Studies}} political party in Iran, founded by Mohammad Reyshahri.{{Citation|first1=David|last1=Menashri|title=The Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|pages=71}} The party was defeated in the 1996 parliamentary and the 1997 presidential elections.

The party's line was similar to those of the Combatant Clergy Association,{{Citation|first1=Robert|last1=Owen Freedman|title=The Middle East and the Peace Process: The Impact of the Oslo Accords|publisher=University Press of Florida|year=1998|pages=258}} and its core members were former counterparts of Reyshahri at the Ministry of Intelligence. Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard, Ruhollah Hosseinian, Mohammad Shariatmadari, Ahmad Pournejati and Ali Razini were among notable members.

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