Abbas Abdi is one of Iran's most influential reformists, journalist, self-taught sociologist and social activist.
Abdolqader Zahedi (1907-2005) was a high-ranking Sunni religious figure and Iranian Kurdish politician. He received a clerical education and was not a war veteran. He was a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts from 1999 to 2005. He died in Saqqez, Iranian Kurdistan on December 19, 2005.
Habibollah Asgaroladi Mosalman was a leading senior Iranian conservative and principlist politician who was the leader of Islamic Coalition Party, a highly influential conservative political party in Iran. He was also a two-time presidential candidate, first in July 1981 and next in 1985. During the presidential elections in 1981, in which he ran for the presidency, an attempt was made to assassinate him outside his home in Iran Street, but this failed and resulted in his bodyguard being killed but Asgaroladi himself escaped largely unhurt.
Mohammad Tavasoli is an Iranian democracy activist and politician. He is the Secretary-General and also the director of the political office of the Freedom Movement party.
Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee is an Iranian politician who was Minister of Education from 2009 to 2013. He is the current member of the Parliament of Iran from Hamedan since 2016, as he previously held the position from the same district from 1996 until 2009 when he was nominated as Minister of Education by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and was confirmed by Parliament. Haji Babaee gained a B.A. in 1988 and M.A. in 1993, both in theology, and obtained Ph.D. in 1998.
Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis is a constituency for the Parliament of Iran encompassing the metropolitan area of Tehran and some of its satellite cities.
Ali Fadavi is an Iranian military officer who currently holds office as the second highest commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hierarchy.
JAMA is an Iranian political party founded in 1964. The party which was mainly active between 1979 and 1981 and a junior partner in the Cabinet of Bazargan, had been outlawed throughout much of its history due to dissenting the rule of both Pahlavi dynasty and the Islamic Republic.
Mohammad-Ali Molavi was an Iranian economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iran from 25 February to 5 November 1979, when he resigned from the office.
Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani was an Iranian physician and reformist politician. From 1984 to 2000, he represented Sabzevar in the Iranian Parliament. During the early 2000s, he headed Iran's State Welfare Organization.
This is an overview of the 2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election in Tehran Province.
This is an overview of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election in Tehran Province.
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".
The Commander of the Iranian Navy is the highest-ranking position of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, and has operational control and is responsible for overall operations of the navy. The current commander is Shahram Irani.
Seda is an Iranian weekly news magazine that covers current affairs.
The first elections for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran Province was held on 10 December 1982 to elect 14 representatives in the constituency. Only 17 candidates –all Khomeinists– competed for the seats, of whom 13 were unanimously endorsed by the Combatant Clergy Association, the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and the Islamic Propagation Office of Qom Seminary.
The third elections for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran Province was held on 23 October 1998 to elect 16 representatives in the constituency. The result was a victory for the conservatives. Allied institutions the Combatant Clergy Association and the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom supported candidates jointly, while the Association of Combatant Clerics and the Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers whose most members were disqualified by the Guardian Council did not support any candidates. Executives of Construction Party was the only reformist group that competed in the election.
The Society of Women of the Islamic Revolution is a nationalist-religious organization in Iran, founded in 1979 by Azam Taleghani.
The Muslim Union Party, the Muslims Unity Party or the Party of Muslim Unity was a political party based in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran.
Salaheddin Bayani was an Iranian politician who served as a member of Parliament of Iran from 1980 to 1984.
