Front of Islamic Revolution Stability

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Front of Islamic Revolution Stability
Secretary-GeneralSadegh Mahsouli
SpokespersonMajid Mottaghifar
Spiritual leaderTaqi Yazdi (deceased)
Deputy Secretary GeneralTo be determined
Women's wing chairwomanFatemeh Alia[1]
Student wing chairmanJalal Abbasian[1]
Founded28 July 2011; 12 years ago (2011-07-28)[2]
Legalized23 September 2014; 9 years ago (2014-09-23)
Preceded byCoalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude[3]
NewspaperUnofficial:
IdeologyAbsolute Guardianship of the Jurist
Religious conservatism
Islamic fundamentalism
Right-wing populism
Islamism[4]
Political positionFar-right[5]
National affiliationPrinciplists Coalition
SloganRationality, Spirituality, Justice[1]
Parliament
24 / 290
Website
http://www.jebhepaydari.ir

The Front of Islamic Revolution Stability (Persian: جبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: Jebha-ye pāydārī-e enqelāb-e eslāmī, also translated Persevering Front,[6] Endurance Front[7] and Steadfast Front)[8] is an Iranian principlist political group described as "extreme end of the fundamentalist camp" and "Iran’s most right-wing party".[9]

The group was established as an electoral list for the 2012 legislative election. The Front is partly made up of former ministers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Taqi Yazdi is said to be the "spiritual leader" behind the group.[10]

The front declares that it stands against both “sedition” (2009 Iranian presidential election protests) and the “deviant current”. Rajanews website is its online mouthpiece.[1]

Views[edit]

The Economist described them as "Shia supermacists who oppose any kind of compromise with anyone inside or outside Iran".[11]

The group's influence extends to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), where they've strategically positioned clerics and commanders who share their hardline ideologies. Many of the recent generation's commanders have undergone extensive training at summer camps conducted by clerics from this group.[11]

History[edit]

In 2013, the Front supported Saeed Jalili for president after Kamran Bagheri Lankarani's withdrawal,[citation needed] and released electoral list for local elections in several cities, with a landslide victory in Mashhad City Council.[12]

In recent years, the group has been influential in passing new laws, such as chastity laws, and in attempts to reinstate the mandatory hijab, which had seen a de facto suspension following widespread protests in 2022.[11]

Election results[edit]

President[edit]

Election Candidate Votes % Rank
2013 Saeed Jalili 4,168,946 11.36% 3rd
2017 Ebrahim Raisi 15,786,449 38.28% 2nd
2021 Ebrahim Raisi 18,021,945 62.90% 1st

Parliament[edit]

Election Seats +/− Ref
2012
85 / 290 (29%)
 Steady [a][13]
2016
24 / 290 (8%)
 Decrease 58 [14]

City councils[edit]

Council 2013 2017
Seats Ref Seats
Tehran
8 / 31 (26%)
 [12]
0 / 21 (0%)
Mashhad
15 / 25 (60%)
 [12]
0 / 15 (0%)
Qom
19 / 21 (90%)
 [b]
Tabriz
3 / 21 (14%)
 [c]
0 / 13 (0%)
Isfahan
4 / 21 (19%)
 [16]
0 / 13 (0%)

Members[edit]

Party leaders[edit]

Current officeholders[edit]

Parliament members

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ Some of MPs are shared with other conservative groups, such as United Front of Conservatives.
  2. ^ 19 members were in a coalition list consisted of conservative groups called "Conservative Grand Coalition", including Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.[12]
  3. ^ Front of Islamic Revolution Stability released a 21-man list for Tabriz,[15] 3 were elected.[12]
  1. ^ a b c d "Iran: A Political Threat to Rouhani? Introducing the Endurance Front". EA WorldView. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  2. ^ "جبهه پایداری انقلاب اسلامی چیست و چگونه شکل گرفت؟". Khabar Online. 12 April 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Farshid Ghazanfarpoor (8 March 2015). "Principlists seeking a good deal for the elections". Shahrvand (in Persian). No. 519. p. 2.
  4. ^ Naghmeh Sohrabi (July 2012), "Reading the Tea Leaves: Iranian Domestic Politics and the Presidential Election of 2013" (PDF), Middle East Brief (65), Brandeis University
  5. ^ Saeed Barzin (27 February 2012). "Guide: Iranian parliamentary elections". BBC World. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  6. ^ Moore, Eric D. (2014). Russia–Iran Relations Since the End of the Cold War. Routledge. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-317-80825-1.
  7. ^ "Hard-line Endurance Front says Rouhani's time is up". Al Monitor. 12 April 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  8. ^ Katouzian, Homa (2013). Iran: Politics, History and Literature. Routledge. pp. xvii–xviii. ISBN 978-0-415-63689-6.
  9. ^ "Iran's election: Even hardliners want reform: A backlash is taking place against conservatism". The Economist. 27 Feb 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  10. ^ Bozorgmehr, Najmeh (February 23, 2012). "Hardline group emerges as Iran poll threat". Financial Times. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  11. ^ a b c "Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  12. ^ a b c d e "سهم گروه‌های سیاسی از چهارمین انتخابات شورای شهر در تهران و ۸ شهر بزرگ". Khabar Online. July 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  13. ^ "+جدول گرايشات سياسي منتخبان مرحله اول و دوم مجلس نهم؛ ۲۰۰ نماينده مجلس‌هشتم از نمايندگي بازماندند/ ۱۶ از ۳۰؛ رأی معنادار به پایداری در تهران/ ۸۵نامزد پایداری بهارستانی‌شدند". Raja News. 5 May 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  14. ^ "کمرنگ شدن دلواپسان "جبهه پایداری" در مجلس دهم", Manoto, 8 May 2016, retrieved 30 June 2016
  15. ^ "کاندیداهای "جبهه پایداری تبریز‌" معرفی شدند". Fars News Agency. June 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  16. ^ "در شورای شهر اصفهان چه می گذرد؟!". Farheekhtegan News Agency. Retrieved March 10, 2015.


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