Septuple Coalition

Septuple Coalition
LeaderCollective leadership
FoundedJuly 1979
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
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The Septuple Coalition was the electoral alliance of seven[1] communist political groups contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election with the stated objective of "exposé"[clarification needed].[2] The alliance also endorsed candidates of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas –which was not part of the coalition– despite the differences between them.

Their main base of support came from lower and lower-middle class students.[1] The leading candidate in the list was Morteza Aladpoush[2] who received only 49,979 votes in Tehran constituency.[3]

  1. ^ a b Iran in der Krise, Weichenstellungen für die Zukunft: Beiträge zur Diskussion der Zukunftsfragen der Islamischen Republik Iran, Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, 1980, p. 125, ISBN 9783878313410
  2. ^ a b "Morteza Aladpush Reveals Undemocratic Methods", Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, 2028, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service: 13, 1979
  3. ^ Mirsepassi, Ali (2004), "The Tragedy of the Iranian Left", Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian left, Routledge, p. 237, Table 10.3 Selected leftist candidates in the Tehran elections for the Assembly of Experts