Association of the fighting clergy
The union of the fighting clergy ( Persian جامعه روحانیت مبارز Dschame'e-ye Rowhaniyat-e Mobarez ) is a clerical-conservative political party in Iran founded in 1977,where it was the majority party in the fourth and fifth parliaments after the Islamic Revolution .
Other common translations are also the Fighting Association of the Clergy , the Fighting Association of the Clergy or the Association of the Fighting Clergy . It should not be confused with the Association of the Warring Clergy , a reform-oriented party belonging to the political left.
history
The party was founded in secret by a group of Islamic clergymen in 1977 to prepare for the overthrow of the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi . It is the oldest clerical party in Iran today. The founding members were Ali Chamene'i , today's "supreme leader" of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Morteza Motahhari , Mohammad Beheschti , Mohammad-Jawad Bahonar , Ali-Akbar Rafsanjani and Mofatteh.
From 1989 the association of the fighting clergy with Ali Akbar Rafsanjani provided the Iranian president. Since the founding member Rafsanjani took a less revolutionary, pragmatic course with an emphatically liberal market economy policy in his second term in office , he came increasingly into conflict with the conservative forces in his party. A new party, the Kargozaran ( Servants of Reconstruction ), arose out of the camp of proponents of Rafsanjani’s policies , which as the pragmatic modern right advocates a course of openness, while the Union of the fighting clergy continues to reject it.
Co-founder Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani was the party's general secretary. Unlike the other parties and groups in Iran, the Union of Warring Clergy does not publish its own newspaper or magazine.
See also
- Islamic Republican Party
- Party of the Muslim People's Republic
- Political Development of Iran
- History of Iran
Individual evidence
- ^ Amin Saikal: The rise and fall of the Shah. Paperback edition 2009, p. Xxi.