Political parties in Iran
This article lists political parties in Iran.
Parties active inside Iran
Principlists
;Main active partiesParty | Secretary-General |
Combatant Clergy Association | Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani |
Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom | Mohammad Yazdi |
Islamic Coalition Party | Mohammad-Nabi Habibi |
Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution | Mohammad Javad Ameri |
Front of Islamic Revolution Stability | Morteza Agha-Tehrani |
YEKTA Front | Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee |
;Other parties
Party | Secretary-General |
Islamic Society of Engineers | Mohammad-Reza Bahonar |
Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution | Parviz Sarvari |
Islamic Association of Physicians | Shahabedin Sadr |
Islamic Society of Employees | Kamal Sajjadi |
Islamic Society of Athletes | Hassan Ghafourifard |
Zeynab Society | Azam Haji-Abbasi |
Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists | Hassan Ghafourifard |
Fadayeen of Islam Society | Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei |
Development and Justice Party | Abdolhossein Ruholamini |
Green Party | Hossein Kanani Moghaddam |
Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran | Hossein Ghorbanzadeh |
Modern Thinkers Party of Islamic Iran | Amir Mohebbian |
Islamic Iran Freedom Party | Issa Kakoui |
Reformists
;Main active partiesParty | Secretary-General |
Association of Combatant Clerics | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha |
Islamic Labour Party | Hossein Kamali |
Executives of Construction Party | Gholamhossein Karbaschi |
National Trust Party | Mehdi Karroubi |
Union of Islamic Iran People Party | Ali Shakouri-Rad |
NEDA Party | Sadegh Kharazi |
Islamic Iran Freedom and Justice Organization | Mehdi Moghaddari |
Moderation and Development Party | Mohammad Bagher Nobakht |
;Other parties
Party | Secretary-General |
Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers | Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi |
Islamic Association of Teachers | Abdolrazzagh Mousavi |
Islamic Association of Engineers | Ali-Mohammad Gharbiani |
Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society | Mohammadreza Zafarghandi |
Islamic Association of University Instructors | Mahmoud Sadeghi |
Association of Followers of the Imam's Line | Hadi Khamenei |
Islamic Iran Solidarity Party | Ali-Asghar Ahmadi |
Democracy Party | Mostafa Kavakebian |
Will of the Iranian Nation Party | Ahmad Hakimipour |
Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic | Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini |
Islamic Assembly of Ladies | Fatemeh Karroubi |
Worker House | Alireza Mahjoub |
Popular Party of Reforms | Mohammad Zare Foumani |
;Banned parties
Party | Secretary-General |
Islamic Iran Participation Front | Mohsen Mirdamadi |
Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization | Mohammad Salamati |
The Green Path of Hope | None |
Outlawed parties tolerated inside Iran
Party | Ideology | Religion | Secretary-General |
National Front | Nationalism | Secular | Vacant |
Pan-Iranist Party | Pan-Iranism | Secular | Zahra Gholamipour |
Nation Party | Pan-Iranism | Secular | Khosrow Seif |
Movement of Militant Muslims | Socialism | Islamic | Habibollah Payman |
Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists | Nationalism | Islamic | None |
Freedom Movement of Iran | Nationalism | Islamic | Mohammad Tavasoli |
Azure Party | Nazism | Islamic | Defunct since 1953 |
SUMKA | Pan-Iranism | Secular | Davud Monshizadeh |
Opposition parties active in exile
Republicans
Monarchists
All monarchist organizations are secular and claim restoring the Pahlavi dynasty:Party | Leader | Base |
Kingdom Assembly of Iran | Frood Fouladvand | |
Constitutionalist Party of Iran – Liberal Democrat | Foad Pashaie | |
National Council of Iran | Reza Pahlavi |