Hezbollah Assembly
{{other uses|Hezbollah (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox parliamentary group
| name = Hezbollah Assembly
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| chamber = Iranian Parliament
| legislature = 5th
| foundation = June 1996
| dissolution = 2000
| president = Abdollah Nouri {{small|(1996–1997)}}
Majid Ansari {{small|(1997–2000)}}
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| parties = Association of Combatant Clerics
Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization
Executives of Construction Party
Worker House
| ideology = Reformism
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The Hezbollah Assembly or Assembly of Hezbollah{{citation|title=Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran|author=Mehdi Moslem|date=2002|isbn=9780815629788|publisher=Syracuse University Press|pages=245}} ({{langx|fa|مجمع حزبالله|Majma'-e Hezbollah|lit=Parliamentary Union of the Party of God}}) was a parliamentary group in the Iranian Parliament between 1996 and 2000.
It has been described as "a moderate grouping of legislative members positioned in the counterpoint of Hezbollah [fraction]" and a "parliamentary alliance" between the modernist right and the Islamic left.{{Citation|last1=Buchta|first1=Wilfried|title= Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic|publisher=The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung| place=Washington DC|year=2000|isbn=0-944029-39-6|page=147}}
Its leader was Abdollah Nouri,{{Citation|first1=Arthur S.|last1=Banks|first2=Alan J.|last2=Day|first3=Thomas C.|last3=Muller|title=Political Handbook of the World 1998|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|year=2016|isbn=9781349149513|pages=433}} who was later succeeded by Majid Ansari.{{Citation|first1=David|last1=Menashri|title=The Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|pages=98}}
Political position
It was founded in 1996 mainly by the candidates included in the electoral list of the right-wing Executives of Construction, which according to Banks et al., is believed to have won 90 to 100 seats. Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization was another major group in the parliamentary group with some 30 seats, according to Wilfried Buchta. Members of the Worker House were also in the parliamentary group.{{citation|title=Iran Report|date=15 February 1999|volume=2|number=7|first=Bill|last=Samii|work=Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}
The group was supportive of Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniCanada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Group known as Anssar-e Hizbollah (Ansar/Anzar e Hezbollah), 18 September 2000, IRN34994.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be430.html [accessed 24 December 2019] and endorsed Mohammad Khatami in his successful bid for 1997 Iranian presidential election, before declaring their support for candidacy of Mir-Hossein Mousavi.{{citation|title=Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran|author=Mehdi Moslem|date=2002|isbn=9780815629788|publisher=Syracuse University Press|pages=245}}
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Category:Iranian Parliament fractions
Category:1996 establishments in Iran