The Quintuple Coalition refers to the electoral alliance of five revolutionary groups contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election. The groups in coalition had Islamic and radical orientations. After the elections, the coalition sent an open letter to Ruhollah Khomeini and complained about "fraud".
Parties in coalition
The five groups were: Revolutionary Movement of Muslim People of Iran (JAMA), led by Kazem Sami People's Mujahedin Organization (MEK), led by Massoud Rajavi Movement of Militant Muslims (MMM), led by Habibollah Peyman The Movement for Liberty, led by Asghar Sayyed Javadi – it was a newly-established and relatively small group that belonged to the center Islamic Organization of Council (SASH), led by Habibollah Ashouri – The group was only briefly active in 1979
Candidates On 18 July 1979, the coalition presented its candidates for all 10 seats in Tehran in an announcement published by Ayandegan.
Constituency Candidate endorsed Votes % Rank ResultTehran Mahmoud Taleghani2,016,801 79.86 1stWon Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri1,560,970 61.81 4thWon Ezzatollah Sahabi1,449,71357.41 6thWon Asghar Sayyed Javadi298,360 11.81 11thDefeated Massoud Rajavi297,707 11.79 12thDefeated Abdolkarim Lahiji179,798 7.12 14thDefeated Habibollah Peyman164,644 6.52 15thDefeated Nasser Katouzian110,859 4.39 21stDefeated Tahereh Saffarzadeh101,778 4.03 22ndDefeated Nezameddin Ghahari36,791 1.46 31stDefeatedEast Azerbaijan Ahmad Hanifnejad76,173 8.47 13thDefeated Hossein Khosrowshahi27,966 3.11 14thDefeated Mousa SheikhzadeganDid not runKhorasan Taher AhmadzadehDid not run Mansour Bazargan51,113 4.81 11thDefeated Mahmoud Delasaei26,772 2.52 18thDefeated Sirous SahamiDid not run Mohammad-Taghi ShariatiDid not run Mehdi Zarif-Asgari23,976 2.26 19thDefeatedFars Hassan Asadi-LariDid not run Javad Baraei39,466 6.42 8thDefeated Morteza Kasraeian18,452 3.00 12thDefeated Mohsen Mahlouji26,074 4.24 10thDefeatedHamedan Davoud MilaniDid not run Yahya Naziri8,583 2.38 5thDefeatedZanjan Hadi Motameni12,179 3.236thDefeated Karim Seyyed JavadiDid not runGilan Shahbaz Shahbazi78,307 22.625thDefeated Taher Khoshkholgh 15,473 4.47 9thDefeated Hadi PourgolDid not runIsfahan Jalaleddin Taheri787,687 83.33 1stWon Mohammad Ahmadi-Foroushani137,623 14.56 6thDefeated Aboutorab Nafisi 7,205 0.76 14thDefeated Rahmatollah Khaleghi10,466 1.11 13thDefeatedSemnan Hossein KharraziDid not runChaharmahal and Bakhtiari Ahmad Nourbakhsh24,75372.921stWonMazandaran Hassan Akbari-MarznakDefeated Morad-Ali ZohariDefeated Seifollah KabirianDefeated Abouzar VardasbiDefeated Mohammad-Reza RouhaniDid not run
See also
Coalition of Islamic Parties Septuple Coalition Grand National Alliance References