List of political parties in Iran

Last updated February 26, 2025

This article lists political parties in Iran .

The course of composition and party relations

Constitutionalists

SDP

MSP

DP

RP

Current composition

Major factions

Faction		Ideology	Year founded	Political position	2024 Iranian presidential election	Legislators
Faction		Ideology	Year founded	Political position	Popular	Parliament	Assembly of Experts	Expediency Discernment Council
	Reformists	Republicanism	1997	Centre	16,384,403 (54.8%)	42 / 290	1 / 88	7 / 48
	Principlists	Islamism	1997	Right-wing	13,538,179 (45.2%)	198 / 290	59 / 88	38 / 48

Parties active inside Iran

Parliament members

	Founded	Leader	Faction	Political position	Parliament
CCIRF	2019	Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel	Principlists	Right-wing	107 / 290
FIRS	2011	Sadegh Mahsouli	Principlists	Far-right	79 / 290
VNC	2012	Ali Motahari	Reformists	Centre to Centre-right	45 / 290
CCA	1977	Mostafa Pourmohammadi	Principlists	Centre-right to Right-wing	13 / 290
IND					46 / 290

Principlists

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

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

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

Monarchists/Liberal-Conservative

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

The course of composition and party relations
Current composition
Major factions
Parties active inside Iran
Parliament members
Principlists
Reformists
Outlawed parties tolerated inside Iran
Opposition parties active in exile
Monarchists/Liberal-Conservative
Ethnic
Leftists
Others
Politically active groups
List of parties by political position
See also
References
Further reading
External links

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

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

Party	Leader	Base
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran National Council of Resistance of Iran	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

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 Nationalism	Farhang Ghasemi	France

Politically active groups

List of parties by political position

Political position key

   Far left
   Left
   Centre left
   Centre
   Centre right
   Right
   Far right
   Syncretic

	Leader	Founded
CCA	Mostafa Pourmohammadi	1977
SST	Hashem Hosseini Bushehri	1961
ICP	Asadollah Badamchian	1963
SDIR	Mohammad Javad Ameri	1995
FIRS	Sadegh Mahsouli	2011
FCETI	Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee	2015
ISE	Mohammad Reza Bahonar	1991
SPIR	Malek Shariati	2008
IAP	Hossein-Ali Shahriyari	1993
ISE	Kamal Sajjadi	1994
ISA	Hassan Ghafourifard	1998
ZS	Aʿzam Hājī-Abbāsī	1986
AIRL	Hassan Ghafourifard	2003
SFI	Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei	1946
DJP	Mehdi Vakilpour	2007
Green Party	Hossein Kanani Moghaddam	1999
CCA	Mohammad Saeed Ahadian	2008
MTPI	Amir Mohebbian	2006
ACC	Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha	1988
MTPI	Hossein Kamali	1998
ECP	Hossein Marashi	1996
MTPI	Elias Hazrati	2005
NUP	Azar Mansouri	2015
NEDA	Shahabeddin Tabatabaei	2014
FGO	Mehdi Moghaddari	1997
MDP	Hassan Rouhani	1999
IAT	Abdolrazzagh Mousavi	1999
IAE	Ebrahim Asgharzadeh	1977
IAUI	Mahmoud Sadeghi	1991
AFIL	Hadi Khamenei	1991
ISP	Mohammad Salari	1998
Democracy Party	Mostafa Kavakebian	1999
HAMA	Ahmad Hakimipour	1990
IAL	Fatemeh Karroubi	1998
Worker House	Alireza Mahjoub	1958
PPR	Mohammad Zare Foumani	2012
IPF	Mohsen Mirdamadi	1998
MIRO	Mohammad Salamati	1991
GPH	Mir-Hossein Mousavi	2009
National Front	Seyed Hossein Mousavian	1949
Iran Party	Bagher Ghadiri-Asl	1941
Party of the Iranian People	Mohammadsadeh Maserrat	1949
Pan-Iranist Party	Dr. Sohrab Azam Zangane	1941
Nation Party	Khosrow Seif	1951
MMM	Habibollah Payman	1977
CNRA	Ezzatollah Sahabi	2000
FMI	Mohammad Tavasoli	1961
Tondar	Jamshid Sharmahd	2004
CPI	Fouad Pashaei	1994
NCI	Reza Pahlavi	2013
PDKI	Mustafa Hijri	1945
KDP	Khalid Azizi	2006
Komala	Abdullah Mohtadi	1979
KCPI	Ibrahim Alizade	1984
KTK	Omar Ilkhanizade	2007
KPKRF	Abdulla Konaposhi	2008
PAK	Hussein Yazdanpanah	1991
Khabat	Babeshekh Hosseini	1980
PJAK	Peyman Viyan	2004
SANAM	Mahmudali Chehregani	2002
ANRO	Babek Chalabiyanli	2006
PMOI	Maryam Rajavi	1965
TP	Navid Shomali	1941
CPI	Central committee	1983
CPIMLM		2001
LPI		1979
Toufan		1965
WCP	Hamid Taqvaee	1991
WCP-H	Jamal Kamangar	2004
IFPG	Ashraf Dehghani	1979
OIPFM	Behruz Khaligh	1980
FOM	Akbar Kāmyābi	1987
OIPFG-FIP	Mehdi Sāme	1983
OIPFG	Ḥosayn Zohari	1985
WW		1978
SWPI	Jamal Kamangar	1979
GFP	Roozbeh Farahanipour	1998
GPI	Kazem Moussavi	1999
IR		2018

References

↑ Rohollah Faghihi (9 September 2015), "Tehran's ever-ambitious mayor", Al-Monitor, retrieved 1 June 2017
↑ "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.
↑ "اطلاعیه درباره مدیریت شورایی حزب ایران سال ۱۳۹۷". حزب ایران (in Persian). 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2023-11-22.

External links

Donahue, Casey (2020) Profiles: Iranian Opposition Groups. The Iran Primer. United States Institute for Peace.

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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.

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v t e Political organizations in Iran
Politics of Iran House of Parties of Iran
Principlists	The Two Societies Combatant Clergy Association Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader Islamic Coalition Party Islamic Society of Engineers Islamic Association of Physicians of Iran Islamic Society of Students Islamic Society of Employees Islamic Society of Athletes Zeynab Society Front of Transformationalist Principlists Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists Summit of Freethinkers Party Fadayeen of Islam Society Ansar-e Hezbollah Front of Islamic Revolution Stability Resistance Front of Islamic Iran Development and Justice Party Green Party Progress and Justice Society of Islamic Iran Modern Thinkers Party of Islamic Iran YEKTA Front
Reformists	Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front Association of Combatant Clerics Executives of Construction Party Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers Islamic Association of Teachers Islamic Association of Engineers Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society Islamic Association of University Instructors Association of Followers of the Imam's Line Islamic Iran Solidarity Party Democracy Party Will of the Iranian Nation Party Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic Islamic Assembly of Ladies Office for Strengthening Unity Islamic Labour Party Worker House Islamic Iran Freedom and Justice Organization Popular Party of Reforms Iranian Call and Reform Organization Kurdish United Front Moderation and Development Party National Trust Party The Green Path of Hope NEDA Party Union of Islamic Iran People Party
Anti-establishment	National Front Iran Party Party of the Iranian People Freedom Movement Movement of Militant Muslims Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists Pan-Iranist Party Nation Party of Iran
Electoral lists Banned/Exiled parties Historic parties

v t e Banned/exiled political organizations of Iran
Politics of Iran
Leftists	People's Mojahedin National Council of Resistance Tudeh Party Communist Party Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Union of People's Fedaian of Iran Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) Fedaian Organisation (Minority) Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (1985) Workers Left Unity – Iran Worker's Way Socialist Workers' Party Worker-Communist Party Worker-Communist Party – Hekmatist Labour Party Laborers' Party
Liberal democrats	Glorious Frontiers Party Green Party United Republicans
Monarchists	National Council of Iran Constitutionalist Party Kingdom Assembly of Iran
Ethnic groups	Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan Komala PIK CPI KTK Kurdistan Freedom Party Kurdistan Free Life Party Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz
Iran-based parties Defunct parties

v t e Historical political organizations in Iran
Politics of Iran
Qajar monarchy	Social Democratic Party Socialist Revolutionary Party Democrat Party Moderate Socialists Party Union and Progress Party Progressives Party Unified Socialist Party Social Reformers Party Learned Council Revival Party Reformers' Party Socialist Party Communist Party Young Communist League Armenian Revolutionary Federation Social Democrat Hunchakian Party Revolutionary Republican Party
Pahlavi monarchy	New Iran Party Progress Party Justice Party Peykar Party Motherland Party Jungle Party Azure Party National Union Party National Will Party Azerbaijani Democratic Party Democrat Party Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists United Front of Progressive Parties Iran Unity Party Comrades Party SUMKA Aria Party Society of Muslim Warriors Toilers Party Third Force League of Iranian Socialists Organization of Communist Revolutionaries Islamic Nations Party JAMA Union of Communist Militants Union of Iranian Communists Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas People's Democratic Front Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class Organization of Working-class Freedom Fighters Nationalists' Party New Iran Party People's Party Iranians' Party Rastakhiz Party
Islamic Republic	Coalition of Islamic Parties Quintuple Coalition Grand coalition Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President Eponym Group Muslim People's Republic Party National Democratic Front Radical Movement of Iran People's Revolutionary Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran Azadegan Organization Front for the Liberation of Iran Islamic Republican Party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization Coalition of the Oppressed and Deprived Coalition of Imam's Line groups Association for Defence of Revolution Values Islamic Reconciliation Party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization Islamic Iran Participation Front Worker-communist Party of Iran
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