This article lists political parties in Iran.
The course of faction and party relations
Current composition Major factions Faction Ideology Yearfounded Politicalposition 2024 presidentialelectionLegislatorsParliamentAssembly ofExpertsExpediencyDiscernment CouncilReformists1997 16,384,403 ()Principlists 13,538,179 ()
Parties active inside Iran Parliament members
Party Founded Leader Faction Political position Parliament Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forcesشورای ائتلاف نیروهای انقلاب اسلامی2019 Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel Principlists Right-wing to far-right Front of Islamic Revolution Stabilityجبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی2011 Sadegh Mahsouli Principlists Far-right Voice of the Nationائتلاف صدای ملت2012 Ali Motahari Reformists Centre Combatant Clergy Associationجامعه روحانیت مبارز1977 Mostafa Pourmohammadi Principlists Right-wing Independent politicians Vacant
Principlists
Main active parties PartyFoundedSecretary-GeneralIdeologyPolitical positionCombatant Clergy Associationجامعه روحانیت مبارز1977Mostafa PourmohammadiKhomeinismRight-wingFront of Islamic Revolution Stabilityجبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی2011Sadegh MahsouliIslamic fundamentalismFar-rightIslamic Coalition Partyحزب مؤتلفه اسلامی1963Asadollah BadamchianRight-wing to far-rightSociety of Devotees of the Islamic Revolutionجمعیت ایثارگران انقلاب اسلامی1997Mohammad Javad AmeriConservatism (Iranian)Right-wingSociety of Seminary Teachers of Qomجامعهٔ مدرسین حوزهٔ علمیهٔ قم1961Hashem Hosseini BushehriKhomeinismJa'fari jurisprudenceRight-wingYEKTA Frontجبهه یکتا2015Hamid-Reza Haji BabaeeFar-right
Other parties PartySecretary-GeneralIslamic Society of EngineersMohammad-Reza Bahonar Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic RevolutionIslamic Association of PhysiciansHossein Ali ShahriariIslamic Society of EmployeesKamal SajjadiIslamic Society of AthletesHassan GhafourifardZeynab SocietyAzam Haji-AbbasiAssociation of Islamic Revolution LoyalistsHassan GhafourifardFadayeen of Islam SocietyMohammad-Mehdi AbdekhodaeiDevelopment and Justice PartyMehdi VakilpourGreen PartyHossein Kanani MoghaddamProgress and Justice Population of Islamic IranMohammad Saeed AhadianModern Thinkers Party of Islamic IranAmir MohebbianIslamic Iran Freedom PartyIssa Kakoui
Reformists
Main active parties PartyFoundedSecretary-GeneralIdeologyPolitical positionAssociation of Combatant Clericsمجمع روحانیون مبارز1988Mohammad Mousavi KhoeinihaIslamic liberalismCentre to centre-leftIslamic Labour Partyحزب اسلامی کار1998Hossein KamaliIslamic democracyIslamic socialismCentre-leftExecutives of Construction Partyحزب کارگزاران سازندگی ایران1996Hossein MarashiEconomic liberalismTechnocracyCentre-rightNational Trust Partyحزب اعتماد ملی2005Elias HazratiPopulismCentre-leftUnion of Islamic Iran People Partyحزب اتحاد ملت ایران اسلامی2015Azar MansouriIslamic liberalismLiberalism (Iranian)Centre-leftNEDA Partyنسل دوم اصلاحات2014Shahabeddin TabatabaeiSocial democracyCentre-leftModeration and Development Partyحزب اعتدال و توسعه1999Hassan RouhaniPragmatismCentre
Other parties PartySecretary-GeneralAssembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and ResearchersHossein Mousavi TabriziIslamic Association of TeachersAbdolrazzagh MousaviIslamic Association of EngineersAli-Mohammad GharbianiIslamic Association of Iranian Medical SocietyMohammadreza ZafarghandiIslamic Association of University InstructorsMahmoud Sadeghi Association of Followers of the Imam's LineHadi KhameneiIslamic Iran Solidarity PartyAli-Asghar AhmadiDemocracy PartyMostafa KavakebianWill of the Iranian Nation PartyAhmad HakimipourAssociation of the Women of the Islamic RepublicZahra Mostafavi KhomeiniIslamic Assembly of LadiesFatemeh KarroubiWorker HouseAlireza MahjoubPopular Party of ReformsMohammad Zare Foumani
Banned parties PartySecretary-GeneralIslamic Iran Participation FrontMohsen MirdamadiMojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran OrganizationMohammad SalamatiThe Green Path of HopeNone
Outlawed parties tolerated inside Iran PartyIdeologyReligionSecretary-GeneralNational FrontNationalismSecularSeyed Hossein MousavianIran Party (member of the National Front)Nationalism Social DemocracySecularThe party is managed by its central committeeParty of the Iranian People (member of the National Front)Left-wing nationalismIslamicMohammadsadeh MaserratPan-Iranist PartyPan-IranismSecularZahra GholamipourNation PartyPan-IranismSecularKhosrow SeifMovement of Militant MuslimsSocialismIslamicHabibollah PeymanCouncil of Nationalist-Religious ActivistsNationalismIslamicNoneFreedom Movement of IranNationalismIslamicMohammad Tavasoli
Opposition parties active in exile
The main Iranian opposition parties can be broadly grouped as follows: on the liberal-democratic side, the Constitutionalist Party of Iran; on the secular-religious (or Muslim democratic) side, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran; on the leftist side, the Left Party of Iran; and on the ethnic (Kurdish) side, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Constitutional monarchists/liberal democratic parties All constitutional monarchist organizations are secular and support restoring the Pahlavi dynasty: PartyLeaderBaseConstitutionalist Party of Iran – Liberal DemocratFoad PashaieIran-Novin PartyDr. Hamed SheibanyradIranian Secular Democratic PartyEsmail Nooriala
Ethnic-based parties PartyEthnicityLeaderBaseDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan KurdishMustafa Hijri Komala Party of Iranian KurdistanAbdullah MohtadiKomalah Organization of the Communist Party of IranIbrahim AlizadeKomala - Reform FactionOmar IlkhanizadeKomala Party of Iranian Kurdistan - Reunification FactionAbdulla KonaposhiKurdistan Freedom PartyHussein YazdanpanahOrganization of Iranian Kurdistan StruggleBaba Sheikh HosseiniKurdistan Free Life PartySiamand Moini and Zîlan VejînQashqai freedom path partyQashqaiRuhollah moradi qashqaiLorestan Party of IranLursFaramarz BakhtiarSouthern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement AzeriMahmudali Chehregani Azerbaijan National Resistance OrganizationSouth Azerbaijan National Liberation MovementPiruz DilanchiTurkmensahra Union Party TurkmenAbdulrahman DiejiTurkmen People's Cultural and Political SocietyCouncil-led
Muslim Democrats PartyLeaderBase People's Mojahedin Organization of IranMaryam Rajavi
Socialists and Communists PartyLeaderBaseTudeh Party of IranMohammad OmidvarCommunist Party of IranCommunist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Laborers' Party of IranLabour Party of Iran (Toufan) Worker-communist Party of IranHamid TaqvaeeWorker-communist Party of Iran – HekmatistRahman HosseinzadehIranian People's Fedai GuerrillasAshraf DehghaniThe Organization of People's Fadaian of Iran(Majority)Tahmaseb VaziriGermanyFedaian Organisation – MinorityAkbar KamyabiOrganization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – IdentityMehdi SameOrganization of Iranian People's Fedai GuerrillasHossein Zohari Worker's WaySocialist Workers' Party of Iran
Social Democrats PartyLeaderBaseLeft Party of IranBehrouz Khaliq Green Party of IranKazem MoussaviSocial Democratic and Laïc Party of IranFarhang Ghasemi
List of parties by political position Political position key
PartyLeaderFoundedMostafa Pourmohammadi1977Hashem Hosseini Bushehri1961Asadollah Badamchian1963Mohammad Javad Ameri1995Sadegh Mahsouli2011Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee2015Mohammad Reza Bahonar1991Malek Shariati2008Hossein-Ali Shahriyari1993Kamal Sajjadi1994Hassan Ghafourifard1998Aʿzam Hājī-Abbāsī1986Hassan Ghafourifard2003Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei1946Mehdi Vakilpour2007Hossein Kanani Moghaddam1999Ruhollah Moradi Qashqai2017Mohammad Saeed Ahadian2008Amir Mohebbian2006Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha1988Hossein Kamali1998Hossein Marashi1996Elias Hazrati2005Azar Mansouri2015Shahabeddin Tabatabaei2014Mehdi Moghaddari1997Hassan Rouhani1999Abdolrazzagh Mousavi1999Ebrahim Asgharzadeh1977Mahmoud Sadeghi1991Hadi Khamenei1991Mohammad Salari1998Mostafa Kavakebian1999Ahmad Hakimipour1990Fatemeh Karroubi1998Alireza Mahjoub1958Mohammad Zare Foumani2012Mohsen Mirdamadi1998Mohammad Salamati1991Mir-Hossein Mousavi2009Seyed Hossein Mousavian1949Bagher Ghadiri-Asl1941Mohammadsadeh Maserrat1949Dr. Sohrab Azam Zangane1941Khosrow Seif1951Habibollah Payman1977Ezzatollah Sahabi2000Mohammad Tavasoli1961Jamshid Sharmahd2004Fouad Pashaei1994Reza Pahlavi2013Mustafa Hijri1945Khalid Azizi 2006Abdullah Mohtadi1979Ibrahim Alizade1984Omar Ilkhanizade2007Abdulla Konaposhi2008Hussein Yazdanpanah1991Babeshekh Hosseini1980Peyman Viyan2004Mahmudali Chehregani2002Babek Chalabiyanli2006Maryam Rajavi1965Navid Shomali1941Central committee1983200119791965Hamid Taqvaee1991Jamal Kamangar2004Ashraf Dehghani1979Behruz Khaligh1980Akbar Kāmyābi1987Mehdi Sāme1983Ḥosayn Zohari19851978Jamal Kamangar1979Roozbeh Farahanipour1998Kazem Moussavi19992018
See also Politics of Iran List of extensive Iranian ground operations in the Iran-Iraq war
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References
Further reading Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. External links Donahue, Casey (2020) Profiles: Iranian Opposition Groups. The Iran Primer. United States Institute for Peace.