Quintuple Coalition

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Quintuple Coalition
Founded1979
Ideology Radicalism
Religion Islam
Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
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The Quintuple Coalition refers to the electoral alliance of five revolutionary groups contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election. [1] The groups in coalition had Islamic and radical orientations. [1] [2] After the elections, the coalition sent an open letter to Ruhollah Khomeini and complained about "fraud". [2]

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Parties in coalition

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Insignia of the groups in coalition

The five groups were: [1]

Candidates

On 18 July 1979, the coalition presented its candidates for all 10 seats in Tehran in an announcement published by Ayandegan . [6] [7]

ConstituencyCandidate endorsedVotes %RankResult
Tehran Mahmoud Taleghani 2,016,80179.861stWon
Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri 1,560,97061.814thWon
Ezzatollah Sahabi 1,449,71357.416thWon
Asghar Sayyed Javadi [a] 298,36011.8111thDefeated
Massoud Rajavi [b] 297,70711.7912thDefeated
Abdolkarim Lahiji 179,7987.1214thDefeated
Habibollah Peyman [c] 164,6446.5215thDefeated
Nasser Katouzian [a] 110,8594.3921stDefeated
Tahereh Saffarzadeh [c] 101,7784.0322ndDefeated
Nezameddin Ghahari [d] 36,7911.4631stDefeated
East Azerbaijan Ahmad Hanifnejad [b] 76,1738.4713thDefeated
Hossein Khosrowshahi [b] 27,9663.1114thDefeated
Mousa SheikhzadeganDid not run
Khorasan Taher Ahmadzadeh Did not run
Mansour Bazargan [b] 51,1134.8111thDefeated
Mahmoud Delasaei26,7722.5218thDefeated
Sirous SahamiDid not run
Mohammad-Taghi Shariati Did not run
Mehdi Zarif-Asgari [d] 23,9762.2619thDefeated
Fars Hassan Asadi-Lari [d] Did not run
Javad Baraei [b] 39,4666.428thDefeated
Morteza Kasraeian [d] 18,4523.0012thDefeated
Mohsen Mahlouji [d] 26,0744.2410thDefeated
Hamedan Davoud MilaniDid not run
Yahya Naziri8,5832.385thDefeated
Zanjan Hadi Motameni [d] 12,1793.236thDefeated
Karim Seyyed JavadiDid not run
Gilan Shahbaz Shahbazi [b] 78,30722.625thDefeated
Taher Khoshkholgh15,4734.479thDefeated
Hadi PourgolDid not run
Isfahan Jalaleddin Taheri 787,68783.331stWon
Mohammad Ahmadi-Foroushani 137,62314.566thDefeated
Aboutorab Nafisi7,2050.7614thDefeated
Rahmatollah Khaleghi10,4661.1113thDefeated
Semnan Hossein KharraziDid not run
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Ahmad Nourbakhsh 24,75372.921stWon
Mazandaran Hassan Akbari-MarznakDefeated
Morad-Ali ZohariDefeated
Seifollah Kabirian [b] Defeated
Abouzar Vardasbi [b] Defeated
Mohammad-Reza RouhaniDid not run
  1. 1 2 Member of the Movement for Freedom
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Member of the People's Mujahedin Organization
  3. 1 2 Member of the Movement of Militant Muslims
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Member of the JAMA

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Schirazi, Asghar (1998), The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic, I.B. Tauris, p. 32, ISBN   9781860642531
  2. 1 2 Grote, Rainer; Röder, Tilmann J.; El-Haj, Ali M. (2016). Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam After the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN   9780190627645.
  3. Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 343. ISBN   9780815654322.
  4. Daneshvar, Parviz (2016). Revolution in Iran. Springer. p. 138. ISBN   978-1349140626.
  5. Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 345. ISBN   9780815654322.
  6. Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2010, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, p. 13
  7. Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2012, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, pp. 60–61