Front of Islamic Revolution Stability

{{short description|Political organisation in Iran}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Front of Islamic Revolution Stability

| native_name = جبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی

| native_name_lang = fa

| colorcode = {{party color|Front of Islamic Revolution Stability}}

| logo = Front of Islamic Revolution Stability logo.svg

| logo_size = 200px

| leader1_title = Spiritual leader

| leader1_name = Taqi Yazdi (deceased)

| leader2_title = Deputy Secretary General

| leader2_name = To be determined

| leader3_title = Women's wing chairwoman

| leader3_name = Fatemeh Alia{{cite web|url=http://eaworldview.com/2014/03/iran-political-threat-rouhani-introducing-endurance-front/|title=Iran: A Political Threat to Rouhani? Introducing the Endurance Front|publisher=EA WorldView|date=14 March 2014|access-date=1 March 2017}}

| leader4_title = Student wing chairman

| leader4_name = Jalal Abbasian

| secretary_general = Sadegh Mahsouli

| spokesperson = Majid Mottaghifar

| slogan = Rationality, Spirituality, Justice

| founded = {{Start date and age|2011|07|28|df=y}}{{cite web|url=http://www.khabaronline.ir/detail/201277/Politics/election|title=جبهه پایداری انقلاب اسلامی چیست و چگونه شکل گرفت؟ |date=12 April 2012|publisher=Khabar Online|access-date=March 10, 2015}}

| legalized = {{Start date and age|2014|09|23|df=y}}

| ideology = {{Nowrap|Absolute Guardianship of the Jurist
Religious conservatism
Islamic fundamentalism
Right-wing populism
Islamism{{citation|title=Reading the Tea Leaves: Iranian Domestic Politics and the Presidential Election of 2013|author=Naghmeh Sohrabi|date=July 2012|number=65 |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/meb/MEB65.pdf|journal=Middle East Brief|publisher=Brandeis University}}}}

| position = Far-right{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-17141030|author=Saeed Barzin|title=Guide: Iranian parliamentary elections|date=27 February 2012|publisher=BBC World|access-date=10 March 2018}}

| newspaper = Unofficial:{{plainlist|

}}

| national = Principlists Coalition

| predecessor = Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude{{cite news|author=Farshid Ghazanfarpoor|title=Principlists seeking a good deal for the elections|work=Shahrvand|date=8 March 2015|number=519|page=2|language=fa}}

| seats1_title = Parliament

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|79|290|hex=#B0C4DE}}

| website = http://www.jebhepaydari.ir

| state = Iran

| country = Iran

}}

The Front of Islamic Revolution Stability ({{langx|fa|جبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی|Jebha-ye pāydārī-e enqelāb-e eslāmī}}, also translated Persevering Front,{{cite book|last=Moore |first=Eric D.|year=2014|title=Russia–Iran Relations Since the End of the Cold War|page=117|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-80825-1}} Endurance Front{{cite web|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/05/rouhani-hosseinian-presidency.html|title=Hard-line Endurance Front says Rouhani's time is up|date=12 April 2012|publisher=Al Monitor|access-date=March 10, 2015}} and Steadfast Front){{cite book|last=Katouzian|first=Homa|year=2013|title=Iran: Politics, History and Literature

|pages=xvii–xviii|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-63689-6}} is an Iranian principlist political group described as "extreme end of the fundamentalist camp" and "Iran’s most right-wing party".{{cite news|title=Iran's election: Even hardliners want reform: A backlash is taking place against conservatism|url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21693637-backlash-taking-place-against-conservatism-even-hardliners-want-reform|access-date=15 March 2016|newspaper=The Economist|date=27 Feb 2016}}

The group was established as an electoral list for the 2012 legislative election. The front is partly made up of former ministers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Taqi Yazdi is said to be the "spiritual leader" behind the group.{{cite web |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2735fedc-5e09-11e1-8c87-00144feabdc0.html|title=Hardline group emerges as Iran poll threat|last1=Bozorgmehr |first1=Najmeh |date=February 23, 2012 |work=Financial Times|access-date=March 10, 2015}}

The front declares that it stands against both "sedition" (2009 Iranian presidential election protests) and the "deviant current". Rajanews website is its online mouthpiece.

Views

The Economist described them as "Shia supremacists who oppose any kind of compromise with anyone inside or outside Iran".{{Cite news |title=Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/04/15/iranians-fear-their-brittle-regime-will-drag-them-into-war |access-date=2024-04-16 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}

The group's influence extends to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), where they've strategically positioned clerics and commanders who share their hardline ideologies. Many of the recent generation's commanders have undergone extensive training at summer camps conducted by clerics from this group.

History

In 2013, the front supported Saeed Jalili for president after Kamran Bagheri Lankarani's withdrawal,{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} and it released electoral lists for local elections in several cities, with a landslide victory in Mashhad City Council.

In recent years, the group has been influential in passing new laws, such as chastity laws, and in attempts to reinstate the mandatory hijab, which had seen a de facto suspension following widespread protests in 2022.

Election results

= President =

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Election

!Candidate

!Votes

!%

!Rank

|2013Saeed Jalili

|4,168,946

|11.36%

|3rd

|2017Ebrahim Raisi

|15,786,449

|38.28%

|2nd

|2021Ebrahim Raisi

|18,021,945

|62.90%

|1st

|2024Saeed Jalili

|13,538,179

|45.24%

|2nd

= Parliament =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
Election

!Seats

!+/−

!Ref

|2012{{Composition bar|85|290|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{steady}}{{efn|Some of MPs are shared with other conservative groups, such as United Front of Conservatives.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rajanews.com/news/108503|title=+جدول گرايشات سياسي منتخبان مرحله اول و دوم مجلس نهم؛ ۲۰۰ نماينده مجلس‌هشتم از نمايندگي بازماندند/ ۱۶ از ۳۰؛ رأی معنادار به پایداری در تهران/ ۸۵نامزد پایداری بهارستانی‌شدند|date=5 May 2012 |publisher=Raja News|access-date=March 10, 2015}}
|2016{{Composition bar|24|290|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{decrease}} 58{{Citation|title=کمرنگ شدن دلواپسان "جبهه پایداری" در مجلس دهم |work = Manoto|url=https://www.manoto.news/news/political/ntdlhi/news22343|date=8 May 2016|access-date=30 June 2016}}
|2020{{Composition bar|8|290|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{decrease}} 16
|2024{{Composition bar|79|290|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{increase}} 71

= City councils =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
rowspan="2"|Council

!colspan="2"|2013

!colspan="1"|2017

Seats

!Ref

!Seats

|Tehran{{Composition bar|8|31|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{Composition bar|0|21|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}
|Mashhad{{Composition bar|15|25|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{Composition bar|0|15|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}
|Qom{{Composition bar|19|21|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{efn|19 members were in a coalition list consisted of conservative groups called "Conservative Grand Coalition", including Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.}}
|Tabriz{{Composition bar|3|21|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{efn|Front of Islamic Revolution Stability released a 21-man list for Tabriz,{{cite web|url=http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13920322001536|title=کاندیداهای "جبهه پایداری تبریز‌" معرفی شدند|date=June 2013|publisher=Fars News Agency|access-date=March 10, 2015|archive-date=August 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807020845/http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13920322001536|url-status=dead}} 3 were elected.{{cite web|url=http://www.khabaronline.ir/detail/299598/society/5184|title=سهم گروه‌های سیاسی از چهارمین انتخابات شورای شهر در تهران و ۸ شهر بزرگ |date=July 2013|publisher=Khabar Online|access-date=March 10, 2015}}}}{{Composition bar|0|13|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}
|Isfahan{{Composition bar|4|21|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}{{cite web|url=http://fdn.ir/content/view/90797/50/|title= در شورای شهر اصفهان چه می گذرد؟! |publisher=Farheekhtegan News Agency|access-date=March 10, 2015}}{{Composition bar|0|13|hex=#B0C4DE|per=1}}

Members

= Party leaders =

{{Col-begin}}{{Col-break}}

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+ Secretaries-general

!Name

!Tenure

!Ref

|Morteza Aghatehrani2011–2021
|Sadegh Mahsouli2021–present

{{Col-break}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
+ Deputy secretaries-general

!Name

!Tenure

!Ref

|Sadegh Mahsouli2016–2020
|TBD

{{Col-break}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
+ Spokespersons

!Name

!Tenure

!Ref

|Kamran Bagheri Lankarani2011–2013
|Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi2013
|Nasser Biria2013–2016
|Majid Mottaghifar2016–present

{{Col-end}}

= Current officeholders =

{{incomplete list|date=August 2016}}

;Parliament members

Notes and references