List of political parties in Iran
The course of faction and party relations
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Current composition
=Major factions=
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! colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Faction ! rowspan="2"| Ideology ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Political position !2024 Iranian presidential election ! colspan="3" |Legislators |
Popular |
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| 1997 | 16,384,403 ({{percentage|16,384,403|29,922,582|sigfig=3}}) |{{Composition bar|42|290|#48D1CC}} |{{Composition bar|1|88|#48D1CC}} |{{Composition bar|7|48|#48D1CC}} |
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|1997 | 13,538,179 ({{percentage|13,538,179|29,922,582|sigfig=3}}) |{{Composition bar|198|290|#0077B6}} |{{Composition bar|59|88|#0077B6}} |{{Composition bar|38|48|#0077B6}} |
Parties active inside Iran
=Parliament members=
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!colspan="2"|Party !Logo !Founded !Leader !Faction !Political position | ||
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|style="background-color:#1A3C9F"| |{{ubl|CCIRF | |align="center"|2019
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|style="background-color:#A16D6A"| |{{ubl|FIRS | 100px
|align="center"|2011 | {{Composition bar|79|290|#A16D6A}} |
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|style="background-color:#FDC238"| |{{ubl|VNC | 100px
|align="center"|2012 |Centre to Centre-right | {{Composition bar|45|290|#FDC238}} |
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|style="background-color:#7996E2"| |{{ubl|CCA | |align="center"|1977
|{{Composition bar|13|290|#7996E2}} | |
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|{{ubl|IND | | | | | |{{Composition bar|46|290|#CDCDCD}} |
=Principlists=
{{main|Iranian Principlists}}
;Main active parties
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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
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Party
!Secretary-General | |
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Islamic Society of Engineers | Mohammad-Reza Bahonar |
Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution | {{ill|Malek Shariati|fa|مالک شریعتی}} |
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{{citation|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/ghalibaf-political-party.html|author=Rohollah Faghihi|title=Tehran's ever-ambitious mayor|work=Al-Monitor|date=9 September 2015|access-date=1 June 2017}} | Issa Kakoui |
= Reformists =
{{main|Iranian Reformists}}
;Main active parties
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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
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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
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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
Opposition parties active in exile
{{main|Iranian dissidents}}
=Monarchists/Liberal-Conservative=
All monarchist organizations are secular and support restoring the Pahlavi dynasty:
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Party
!Leader !Base | ||
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Kingdom Assembly of Iran (Tondar){{cn|reason=Is this group still active?|date=July 2022}} | Frood Fouladvand | {{flag|United States}} |
Constitutionalist Party of Iran – Liberal Democrat | Foad Pashaie | {{flag|United States}} |
National Council of Iran | Reza Pahlavi II | {{flag|France}} |
Iran-Novin Party
|Dr. Hamed Sheibanyrad |{{flag|France}} |
=Ethnic=
=Leftists=
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Party
!Leader !Base | ||
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{{Tree list/end}} | Maryam Rajavi | {{flag|France}} {{flag|Albania}} |
Tudeh Party of Iran | Mohammad Omidvar | {{flag|Germany}} {{flag|United Kingdom}} |
Communist Party of Iran | {{Unknown}} | {{Unknown}} |
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) | {{Unknown}} | {{Unknown}} |
Laborers' Party of Iran | {{Unknown}} | {{flag|Sweden}} |
Labour Party of Iran (Toufan) | {{Unknown}} | {{flag|Germany}} |
Worker-communist Party of Iran | Hamid Taqvaee | {{flag|Germany}} |
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist | Rahman Hosseinzadeh | {{flag|Sweden}} |
Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas | Ashraf Dehghani | {{flag|United Kingdom}} |
Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian – Majority | Behrouz Khaliq | {{flag|Germany}} |
Fedaian Organisation – Minority | Akbar Kamyabi | {{flag|Netherlands}} |
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Identity{{Citation needed|reason=Is this group still active?|date=July 2022}} | Mehdi Same | {{flag|France}} |
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas{{Citation needed|reason=Is this group still active?|date=July 2022}} | Hossein Zohari | {{flag|Germany}} |
Worker's Way | {{unknown}} | {{flag|Germany}} |
Socialist Workers' Party of Iran | {{unknown}} | {{flag|United Kingdom}} |
=Others=
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Party
!Ideology !Leader !Base | |||
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Glorious Frontiers Party{{cn|reason=Is this group still active?|date=July 2022}} | Nationalism | Roozbeh Farahanipour | {{flag|United States}} |
Iranian Secular Democratic Party | Secularism | Esmail Nooriala | {{flag|USA}} |
Green Party of Iran | Green | Kazem Moussavi | {{flag|Germany}} |
Farashgard | Liberalism | 40 Activists | {{flag|USA}} |
Social Democratic and Laïc Party of Iran (member of National Front (Iran)) | Social democracy
|Farhang Ghasemi | {{flag|France}} |
=Politically active groups=
List of parties by political position
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!colspan="2"|Party !Leader !Founded |
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|style="background-color:#7996E2"| |{{ubl|CCA | align="center" |1977 |
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|style="background-color:#8d9075"| |{{ubl|SST | align="center" |1961 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#00844B"| |{{ubl|ICP | align="center" |1963 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:#1b2048"| |{{ubl|SDIR | align="center" |1995 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:#B0C4DE"| |{{ubl|FIRS | align="center" |2011 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:Gold"| |{{ubl|FCETI | align="center" |2015 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#FDEE00"| |{{ubl|ISE | align="center" |1991 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:black"| |{{ubl|SPIR | align="center" |2008 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|IAP | align="center" |1993 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:DarkSlateGrey"| |{{ubl|ISE | align="center" |1994 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:Green"| |{{ubl|ISA | align="center" |1998 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#01c3ff"| |{{ubl|ZS | align="center" |1986 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|AIRL | align="center" |2003 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:#009900"| |{{ubl|SFI | align="center" |1946 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:Brown"| |{{ubl|DJP | align="center" |2007 |
style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#00A693"| |{{ubl|Green Party | align="center" |1999 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color: {{party color|Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran}}"| |{{ubl|CCA | align="center" |2008 |
style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#800080"| |{{ubl|MTPI | align="center" |2006 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color: {{party color|Association of Combatant Clerics}}"| |{{ubl|ACC | align="center" |1988 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#da0000ff"| |{{ubl|MTPI | align="center" |1998 |
style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#E30E21"| |{{ubl|ECP | align="center" |1996 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:Orange"| |{{ubl|MTPI | align="center" |2005 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#77B5FE"| |{{ubl|NUP | align="center" |2015 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#54ffa1"| |{{ubl|NEDA | align="center" |2014 |
style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#006634"| |{{ubl|FGO | align="center" |1997 |
style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#984B9E"| |{{ubl|MDP | align="center" |1999 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#3d98b3"| |{{ubl|IAT | align="center" |1999 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:SlateGrey"| |{{ubl|IAE | align="center" |1977 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:ForestGreen"| |{{ubl|IAUI | align="center" |1991 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:orange"| |{{ubl|AFIL | align="center" |1991 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:Blue"| |{{ubl|ISP | align="center" |1998 |
style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#ff0103"| |{{ubl|Democracy Party | align="center" |1999 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#32CD32"| |{{ubl|HAMA | align="center" |1990 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#0f62aa"| |{{ubl|IAL | align="center" |1998 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#246386"| |{{ubl|Worker House | align="center" |1958 |
style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#8B008B"| |{{ubl|PPR | align="center" |2012 |
style="background:#332b6c"
|style="background-color:#039"| |{{ubl|IPF | align="center" |1998 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#009900"| |{{ubl|MIRO | align="center" |1991 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#02BC00"| |{{ubl|GPH | align="center" |2009 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:{{party color|National Front (Iran)}}"| |{{ubl|National Front | align="center" |1949 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:White"| |{{ubl|Iran Party | align="center" |1941 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|Party of the Iranian People | align="center" |1949 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:darkgray"| |{{ubl|Pan-Iranist Party | align="center" |1941 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:{{party color|Nation Party of Iran}}"| |{{ubl|Nation Party | align="center" |1951 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|MMM | align="center" |1977 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|CNRA | align="center" |2000 |
style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#FFD703"| |{{ubl|FMI | align="center" |1961 |
style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|Tondar | align="center" |2004 |
style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:{{party color|Constitutionalist Party of Iran}}"| |{{ubl|CPI | align="center" |1994 |
style="background:#332b6c"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|NCI | align="center" |2013 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:red"| |{{ubl|PDKI | align="center" |1945 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Blue"| |{{ubl|KDP | align="center" |2006 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|Komala | align="center" |1979 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|KCPI | align="center" |1984 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|KTK | align="center" |2007 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|KPKRF | align="center" |2008 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|PAK | align="center" |1991 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#47b113"| |{{ubl|Khabat | align="center" |1980 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color: #FF0000"| |{{ubl|PJAK | align="center" |2004 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#00b5e2"| |{{ubl|SANAM | align="center" |2002 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|ANRO | align="center" |2006 |
style="background:#332b6c"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|PMOI | align="center" |1965 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:{{party color|Tudeh Party of Iran}}"| |{{ubl|TP | align="center" |1941 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#CE1E24"| |{{ubl|CPI | align="center" |1983 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|CPIMLM | | align="center" |2001 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|LPI | | align="center" |1979 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|Toufan | | align="center" |1965 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#FF0000"| |{{ubl|WCP | align="center" |1991 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#FF0000"| |{{ubl|WCP-H | align="center" |2004 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#CF1401"| |{{ubl|IFPG | align="center" |1979 |
style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#F80706"| |{{ubl|OIPFM | align="center" |1980 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#D64A18"| |{{ubl|FOM | align="center" |1987 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|OIPFG-FIP | align="center" |1983 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|OIPFG | align="center" |1985 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|WW | | align="center" |1978 |
style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"| |{{ubl|SWPI | align="center" |1979 |
style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#"| |{{ubl|GFP | align="center" |1998 |
style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#00A693"| |{{ubl|GPI | align="center" |1999 |
style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#40E0D0"| |{{ubl|IR | | align="center" |2018 |
See also
References
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Further reading
Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-691-10134-7}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200703011200/https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/jul/02/profiles-iranian-opposition-groups Donahue, Casey (2020) Profiles: Iranian Opposition Groups. The Iran Primer. United States Institute for Peace.]
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