This article lists political parties in Iran.
The course of faction and party relations
Current composition
Major factions
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Faction
! rowspan="2"| Ideology
! rowspan="2"| Year<br />founded
! rowspan="2"| Political<br/>position
! rowspan=2 | 2024 presidential<br/>election
! colspan="3" |Legislators
|-
!Parliament
!Assembly of<br/>Experts
!Expediency<br/>Discernment Council
|-
! style="background-color:" |
!Reformists
|
| rowspan="2"|1997
|
| 16,384,403 ()
|
|
|
|-
! style="background-color:" |
!Principlists
|
|<br/>
| 13,538,179 ()
|
|
|
|}
Parties active inside Iran
Parliament members
{|class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Founded
! Leader
! colspan=2 | Faction
! Political position
! Parliament
|-
|
| Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces<br>شورای ائتلاف نیروهای انقلاب اسلامی
| textalign="center"|2019
| Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
|
| Principlists
| Right-wing to far-right
|
|-
|
| Front of Islamic Revolution Stability<br>جبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی
| textalign="center"|2011
| Sadegh Mahsouli
|
| Principlists
| Far-right
|
|-
|
| Voice of the Nation<br>ائتلاف صدای ملت
| textalign="center"|2012
| Ali Motahari
|
| Reformists
| Centre
|
|-
|
| Combatant Clergy Association<br>جامعه روحانیت مبارز
| textalign="center"|1977
| Mostafa Pourmohammadi
|
| Principlists
| Right-wing
|
|-
| style="background-color:#CDCDCD"|
| colspan="6" | Independent politicians
|
|-
| style="background-color:#000000"|
| colspan="6"|Vacant
|
|}
Principlists
Main active parties
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" |Party
!Founded
!Secretary-General
!Ideology
!Political position
|-
|style="background-color:#7996E2"|
|Combatant Clergy Association<br>جامعه روحانیت مبارز
|1977
|Mostafa Pourmohammadi
|Khomeinism
|Right-wing
|-
|style="background-color:#A16D6A"|
|Front of Islamic Revolution Stability<br>جبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی
|2011
|Sadegh Mahsouli
|Islamic fundamentalism
|Far-right
|-
|style="background-color:#00844B"|
|Islamic Coalition Party<br>حزب مؤتلفه اسلامی
|1963
|Asadollah Badamchian
|
|Right-wing to far-right
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution<br>جمعیت ایثارگران انقلاب اسلامی
|1997
|Mohammad Javad Ameri
|Conservatism (Iranian)
|Right-wing
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom<br>جامعهٔ مدرسین حوزهٔ علمیهٔ قم
|1961
|Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
|Khomeinism<br />Ja'fari jurisprudence
|Right-wing
|-
|style="background-color:Gold"|
|YEKTA Front<br>جبهه یکتا
|2015
|Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee
|
|Far-right
|}
Other parties
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!Party
!Secretary-General
|-
|Islamic Society of Engineers||Mohammad-Reza Bahonar
|-
|Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution||
|-
|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||Issa Kakoui
|}
Reformists
Main active parties
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" |Party
!Founded
!Secretary-General
!Ideology
!Political position
|-
|
|Association of Combatant Clerics<br>مجمع روحانیون مبارز
|1988
|Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
|Islamic liberalism
|Centre to centre-left
|-
|
|Islamic Labour Party<br>حزب اسلامی کار
|1998
|Hossein Kamali
|Islamic democracy<br>Islamic socialism
|Centre-left
|-
|
|Executives of Construction Party<br>حزب کارگزاران سازندگی ایران
|1996
|Hossein Marashi
|Economic liberalism<br>Technocracy
|Centre-right
|-
|
|National Trust Party<br>حزب اعتماد ملی
|2005
|Elias Hazrati
|Populism
|Centre-left
|-
|
|Union of Islamic Iran People Party<br>حزب اتحاد ملت ایران اسلامی
|2015
|Azar Mansouri
|Islamic liberalism<br>Liberalism (Iranian)
|Centre-left
|-
|
|NEDA Party<br>نسل دوم اصلاحات
|2014
|Shahabeddin Tabatabaei
|Social democracy
|Centre-left
|-
|
|Moderation and Development Party<br>حزب اعتدال و توسعه
|1999
|Hassan Rouhani
|Pragmatism
|Centre
|}
Other parties
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!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
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!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
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!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
|- Party of the Iranian People
|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
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:
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!Party
!Leader
!Base
|-
|Constitutionalist Party of Iran – Liberal Democrat||Foad Pashaie||
|-
|Iran-Novin Party
|Dr. Hamed Sheibanyrad
|
|-
|Iranian Secular Democratic Party||Esmail Nooriala||
|}
Ethnic-based parties
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!Party
!Ethnicity
!Leader
!Base
|-
|Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan||rowspan="8" | Kurdish||Mustafa Hijri|| rowspan="7" |
|-
|Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan||Abdullah Mohtadi
|-
|Komalah Organization of the Communist Party of Iran||Ibrahim Alizade
|-
|Komala - Reform Faction
|Omar Ilkhanizade
|-
|Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan - Reunification Faction
|Abdulla Konaposhi
|-
|Kurdistan Freedom Party||Hussein Yazdanpanah
|-
|Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle||Baba Sheikh Hosseini
|-
|Kurdistan Free Life Party||Siamand Moini and Zîlan Vejîn||
|-
|Qashqai freedom path party
|Qashqai
|Ruhollah moradi qashqai
||
|-
|Lorestan Party of Iran||Lurs||Faramarz Bakhtiar||
|-
|Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement|| rowspan="3" | Azeri||Mahmudali Chehregani|| rowspan="3" |
|-
|Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization||
|-
|South Azerbaijan National Liberation Movement||Piruz Dilanchi
|}
Muslim Democrats
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!Party
!Leader
!Base
|-
| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
| |Maryam Rajavi||<br>
|}
Socialists and Communists
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!Party
!Leader
!Base
|-
|Tudeh Party of Iran||Mohammad Omidvar||<br>
|-
|Communist Party of Iran||||
|-
|Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)||||
|-
|Laborers' Party of Iran||||
|-
|Labour Party of Iran (Toufan)||||rowspan="2" |
|-
|Worker-communist Party of Iran||Hamid Taqvaee
|-
|Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist||Rahman Hosseinzadeh||
|-
|Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas||Ashraf Dehghani||
|-
|The Organization of People's Fadaian of Iran(Majority)
|Tahmaseb Vaziri
|Germany
|-
|Fedaian Organisation – Minority||Akbar Kamyabi||
|-
|Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Identity||Mehdi Same||
|-
|Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas||Hossein Zohari|| rowspan="2" |
|-
|Worker's Way||
|-
|Socialist Workers' Party of Iran||||
|}
Social Democrats
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
!Party
!Leader
!Base
|-
|Left Party of Iran||Behrouz Khaliq|| rowspan="2" |
|-
|Green Party of Iran||Kazem Moussavi
|-
|Social Democratic and Laïc Party of Iran||Farhang Ghasemi||
|}
List of parties by political position
Political position key
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-datatable mw-collapsible" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;line-height:14px;"
!colspan="2"|Party
!Leader
!Founded
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#7996E2"|
|
|Mostafa Pourmohammadi
| align="center" |1977
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#7996E2"|
|
|Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
| align="center" |1961
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#00844B"|
|
|Asadollah Badamchian
| align="center" |1963
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:#1b2048"|
|
|Mohammad Javad Ameri
| align="center" |1995
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:"|
|
|Sadegh Mahsouli
| align="center" |2011
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:Gold"|
|
|Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee
| align="center" |2015
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#FDEE00"|
|
|Mohammad Reza Bahonar
| align="center" |1991
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:black"|
|
|Malek Shariati
| align="center" |2008
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Hossein-Ali Shahriyari
| align="center" |1993
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:DarkSlateGrey"|
|
|Kamal Sajjadi
| align="center" |1994
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:Green"|
|
|Hassan Ghafourifard
| align="center" |1998
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#01c3ff"|
|
|Aʿzam Hājī-Abbāsī
| align="center" |1986
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Hassan Ghafourifard
| align="center" |2003
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:#009900"|
|
|Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei
| align="center" |1946
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:Brown"|
|
|Mehdi Vakilpour
| align="center" |2007
|-style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#00A693"|
|
|Hossein Kanani Moghaddam
| align="center" |1999
|-style="background:#f9af2f"
|style="background-color:#27b53f"|
|
|Ruhollah Moradi Qashqai
| align="center" |2017
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color: "|
|
|Mohammad Saeed Ahadian
| align="center" |2008
|-style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#800080"|
|
|Amir Mohebbian
| align="center" |2006
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color: "|
|
|Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
| align="center" |1988
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#da0000ff"|
|
|Hossein Kamali
| align="center" |1998
|-style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#E30E21"|
|
|Hossein Marashi
| align="center" |1996
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:Orange"|
|
|Elias Hazrati
| align="center" |2005
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#77B5FE"|
|
|Azar Mansouri
| align="center" |2015
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#54ffa1"|
|
|Shahabeddin Tabatabaei
| align="center" |2014
|-style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#006634"|
|
|Mehdi Moghaddari
| align="center" |1997
|-style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#984B9E"|
|
|Hassan Rouhani
| align="center" |1999
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#3d98b3"|
|
|Abdolrazzagh Mousavi
| align="center" |1999
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:SlateGrey"|
|
|Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
| align="center" |1977
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:ForestGreen"|
|
|Mahmoud Sadeghi
| align="center" |1991
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:orange"|
|
|Hadi Khamenei
| align="center" |1991
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:Blue"|
|
|Mohammad Salari
| align="center" |1998
|-style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#ff0103"|
|
|Mostafa Kavakebian
| align="center" |1999
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#32CD32"|
|
|Ahmad Hakimipour
| align="center" |1990
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#0f62aa"|
|
|Fatemeh Karroubi
| align="center" |1998
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#246386"|
|
|Alireza Mahjoub
| align="center" |1958
|-style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#8B008B"|
|
|Mohammad Zare Foumani
| align="center" |2012
|-style="background:#332b6c"
|style="background-color:#039"|
|
|Mohsen Mirdamadi
| align="center" |1998
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#009900"|
|
|Mohammad Salamati
| align="center" |1991
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#02BC00"|
|
|Mir-Hossein Mousavi
| align="center" |2009
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:"|
|
|Seyed Hossein Mousavian
| align="center" |1949
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:White"|
|
|Bagher Ghadiri-Asl
| align="center" |1941
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Mohammadsadeh Maserrat
| align="center" |1949
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:darkgray"|
|
|Dr. Sohrab Azam Zangane
| align="center" |1941
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:"|
|
|Khosrow Seif
| align="center" |1951
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Habibollah Payman
| align="center" |1977
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Ezzatollah Sahabi
| align="center" |2000
|-style="background:#ffd12d"
|style="background-color:#FFD703"|
|
|Mohammad Tavasoli
| align="center" |1961
|-style="background:#1f3a93"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Jamshid Sharmahd
| align="center" |2004
|-style="background:#0057e6"
|style="background-color:"|
|
|Fouad Pashaei
| align="center" |1994
|-style="background:#332b6c"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Reza Pahlavi
| align="center" |2013
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:red"|
|
|Mustafa Hijri
| align="center" |1945
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Blue"|
|
|Khalid Azizi
| align="center" |2006
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Abdullah Mohtadi
| align="center" |1979
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Ibrahim Alizade
| align="center" |1984
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Omar Ilkhanizade
| align="center" |2007
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Abdulla Konaposhi
| align="center" |2008
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Hussein Yazdanpanah
| align="center" |1991
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#47b113"|
|
|Babeshekh Hosseini
| align="center" |1980
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color: #FF0000"|
|
|Peyman Viyan
| align="center" |2004
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#00b5e2"|
|
|Mahmudali Chehregani
| align="center" |2002
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Babek Chalabiyanli
| align="center" |2006
|-style="background:#332b6c"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Maryam Rajavi
| align="center" |1965
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:"|
|
|Navid Shomali
| align="center" |1941
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#CE1E24"|
|
|Central committee
| align="center" |1983
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|
| align="center" |2001
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|
| align="center" |1979
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|
| align="center" |1965
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#FF0000"|
|
|Hamid Taqvaee
| align="center" |1991
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#FF0000"|
|
|Jamal Kamangar
| align="center" |2004
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#CF1401"|
|
|Ashraf Dehghani
| align="center" |1979
|-style="background:#ff1a3a"
|style="background-color:#F80706"|
|
|Behruz Khaligh
| align="center" |1980
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:#D64A18"|
|
|Akbar Kāmyābi
| align="center" |1987
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Mehdi Sāme
| align="center" |1983
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Ḥosayn Zohari
| align="center" |1985
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|
| align="center" |1978
|-style="background:#a42129"
|style="background-color:Red"|
|
|Jamal Kamangar
| align="center" |1979
|-style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#"|
|
|Roozbeh Farahanipour
| align="center" |1998
|-style="background:#ff7518"
|style="background-color:#00A693"|
|
|Kazem Moussavi
| align="center" |1999
|-style="background:#15f2fd"
|style="background-color:#40E0D0"|
|
|
| align="center" |2018
|}
See also
- Politics of Iran
- List of extensive Iranian ground operations in the Iran-Iraq war
Notes
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.