Participation front of Islamic Iran
| Participation front of Islamic Iran جبهه مشارکت ایران اسلامی |
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| Party leader | Mohsen Mirdamadi |
| founding | 1998 |
| Place of foundation | Tehran |
| Website | norooznews.org |
The Participation Front of Islamic Iran (PII; Persian جبهه مشارکت ایران اسلامی Jebheye Moscharekat Irane Eslami , also a cooperation front of Islamic Iran) is a political party of the so-called reformist camp in Iran that has existed since 1997.
Foundation and position
According to MEMRI employee Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, the PII was founded in the run-up to the 1997 presidential elections to support the reformist candidate and later election winner Mohammad Chātami ( Radio Free Europe speaks of September 1998 as the date of foundation). Its general secretary was his brother Mohammad-Reza Chātamī until August 8, 2006 . Mohammad Chātami himself was not a member of the PII. The party's decision-making body is a thirty-member Central Council, which is elected at the annual party congress and to which Said Hajjarian is currently a member.
The PII is committed to reforming the Iranian political system . It demands the strengthening of the democratic elements and the participation of the population in political decisions. However, the role of Islam as the state religion and standard for laws remains unaffected. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh speaks of "the social institutionalization of the dictatorship" as the party's goal. Their motto is "Iran for all Iranians" .
history
Sanctions
The reform enthusiasm that had prevailed since 1997 was curbed by the conservative institutions from 1999 onwards. Nevertheless, an overwhelming victory in the 2000 parliamentary elections was achieved. In April 2000, despite the reforming president, the PII Mosharekat party newspaper was banned. In the 2004 parliamentary elections , the Guardian Council banned PII candidates from running. From 2005 the PII movement came to a complete political standstill.
Presidential elections since 2005
After Mohammad Chātami was not allowed to run again after two terms, the PII supported Mostafa Moin in the 2005 presidential elections . At the ninth party congress in August 2006, Mohsen Mirdamadi was elected as the new general secretary. Mohammad-Reza Chātami had previously resigned. The PII takes a critical position on the aggressive demeanor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his anti-Israel statements. Karim Sadjadpour, director of the Iran Initiative of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, quoted the PII as saying:
"When the country is facing an international crisis, such expressions impose a heavy burden on the country's political, security and economic interests."
"Semiramis Akbari"
In the 2009 presidential elections , Mohammad Chātami ran again as the most promising reformer. Three months before the elections, however, Chātami surprisingly resigned his candidacy and called on his supporters to support the former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi . The PII then officially expressed its support for Mousavi.
See also
Web links
- Official site (Persian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mostafa Moin and the ninth presidential elections in Iran ( Memento of May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) ( MEMRI )
- ^ A b Wahied Wahdat-Hagh: "The Islamic Republic of Iran" , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3825867811 , p. 342 google books
- ↑ Parties And Coalitions In Iran's 2005 Presidential Election ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Radio Free Europe ; English)
- ↑ Iran Report 05/2009 of the Heinrich Böll Foundation ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
