List of political parties in Iran

This article lists political parties in Iran.

Parties active inside Iran

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Principlists

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Main active parties
Party Secretary-General
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
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 active parties
Party Secretary-General
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
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
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
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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Monarchists/Liberal-Conservative

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

Party Leader Base
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
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
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
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

Farhang Ghasemi   France

Politically active groups

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See also

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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

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