Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization

Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization
سازمان مجاهدین انقلاب اسلامی
Paramilitary wing commanderMohammad Boroujerdi[2]
Supreme Leader representativeHossein Rasti-Kashani[3]
FoundedApril 1979
DissolvedOctober 1986
Succeeded byMojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization (left faction)
Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution (right faction)
HeadquartersTehran, Iran
Membership (1979)<1,000[4]
IdeologyIslamism
Khomeinism[1]
Anti-communism[1]
Statism[5]
Political positionLeft-wing[4] to right-wing[4]
ReligionIslam
National affiliationIslamic Coalition (1979)
Grand Coalition (1980)

Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization (Persian: سازمان مجاهدین انقلاب اسلامی, romanizedSāzmān-e Mojāhedin-e Enqelāb-e Eslāmi, lit.'Holy Warriors of the Islamic Revolution') was an umbrella political organization in Iran, founded in 1979 by unification of seven underground Islamist revolutionary paramilitary and civil[4] organizations which previously fought against the Pahlavi monarchy.[6]

The organization was firmly allied with the ruling Islamic Republican Party and was given a share of power[7] and three of its members were appointed as government ministers under PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi: Behzad Nabavi (minister without portfolio for executive affairs), Mohammad Salamati (agriculture) and Mohammad Shahab Gonabadi (housing and urban development).[8]

  1. ^ a b c Afshon Ostovar (2016). Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Oxford University Press. pp. 50–54. ISBN 978-0190491703.
  2. ^ Forozan, Hesam (2015), The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Evolution and Roles of the Revolutionary Guards, Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series, vol. 38, Routledge, p. 107
  3. ^ Moslem, Mehdi (2002). Factional politics in post-Khomeini Iran. Syracuse University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-8156-2978-8.
  4. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference IDP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Pesaran, Evaleila (2011), Iran's Struggle for Economic Independence: Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era, Taylor & Francis, p. 94, ISBN 978-1136735578
  6. ^ Alfoneh, Ali (2013), Iran Unveiled: How the Revolutionary Guards Is Transforming Iran from Theocracy into Military Dictatorship, AEI Press, pp. 8–10
  7. ^ Hiro, Dilip (2013). Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals). Routledge. p. 241. ISBN 978-1135043810.
  8. ^ Baktiari, Bahman (1996). Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8130-1461-6.