Quintuple Coalition
Quintuple Coalition | |
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Founded | 1979 |
Ideology | Radicalism |
Religion | Islam |
Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution | 5 / 73 |
The Quintuple Coalition refers to the electoral alliance of five revolutionary groups contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election.[1] The groups in coalition had Islamic and radical orientations.[1][2] After the elections, the coalition sent an open letter to Ruhollah Khomeini and complained about "fraud".[2]
Parties in coalition
[edit]Insignia of the groups in coalition
The five groups were:[1]
- Revolutionary Movement of Muslim People of Iran (JAMA), led by Kazem Sami
- People's Mujahedin Organization (MEK), led by Massoud Rajavi
- Movement of Militant Muslims (MMM), led by Habibollah Peyman
- The Movement for Liberty, led by Asghar Sayyed Javadi[3] – it was a newly-established and relatively small group that belonged to the center[4]
- Islamic Organization of Council (SASH), led by Habibollah Ashouri – The group was only briefly active in 1979[5]
Candidates
[edit]On 18 July 1979, the coalition presented its candidates for all 10 seats in Tehran in an announcement published by Ayandegan.[6][7]
Constituency | Candidate endorsed | Votes | % | Rank | Result |
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Tehran | Mahmoud Taleghani | 2,016,801 | 79.86 | 1st | Won |
Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri | 1,560,970 | 61.81 | 4th | Won | |
Ezzatollah Sahabi | 1,449,713 | 57.41 | 6th | Won | |
Asghar Sayyed Javadi[a] | 298,360 | 11.81 | 11th | Defeated | |
Massoud Rajavi[b] | 297,707 | 11.79 | 12th | Defeated | |
Abdolkarim Lahiji | 179,798 | 7.12 | 14th | Defeated | |
Habibollah Peyman[c] | 164,644 | 6.52 | 15th | Defeated | |
Nasser Katouzian[a] | 110,859 | 4.39 | 21st | Defeated | |
Tahereh Saffarzadeh[c] | 101,778 | 4.03 | 22nd | Defeated | |
Nezameddin Ghahari[d] | 36,791 | 1.46 | 31st | Defeated | |
East Azerbaijan | Ahmad Hanifnejad[b] | 76,173 | 8.47 | 13th | Defeated |
Hossein Khosrowshahi[b] | 27,966 | 3.11 | 14th | Defeated | |
Mousa Sheikhzadegan | Did not run | ||||
Khorasan | Taher Ahmadzadeh | Did not run | |||
Mansour Bazargan[b] | 51,113 | 4.81 | 11th | Defeated | |
Mahmoud Delasaei | 26,772 | 2.52 | 18th | Defeated | |
Sirous Sahami | Did not run | ||||
Mohammad-Taghi Shariati | Did not run | ||||
Mehdi Zarif-Asgari[d] | 23,976 | 2.26 | 19th | Defeated | |
Fars | Hassan Asadi-Lari[d] | Did not run | |||
Javad Baraei[b] | 39,466 | 6.42 | 8th | Defeated | |
Morteza Kasraeian[d] | 18,452 | 3.00 | 12th | Defeated | |
Mohsen Mahlouji[d] | 26,074 | 4.24 | 10th | Defeated | |
Hamedan | Davoud Milani | Did not run | |||
Yahya Naziri | 8,583 | 2.38 | 5th | Defeated | |
Zanjan | Hadi Motameni[d] | 12,179 | 3.23 | 6th | Defeated |
Karim Seyyed Javadi | Did not run | ||||
Gilan | Shahbaz Shahbazi[b] | 78,307 | 22.62 | 5th | Defeated |
Taher Khoshkholgh | 15,473 | 4.47 | 9th | Defeated | |
Hadi Pourgol | Did not run | ||||
Isfahan | Jalaleddin Taheri | 787,687 | 83.33 | 1st | Won |
Mohammad Ahmadi-Foroushani | 137,623 | 14.56 | 6th | Defeated | |
Aboutorab Nafisi | 7,205 | 0.76 | 14th | Defeated | |
Rahmatollah Khaleghi | 10,466 | 1.11 | 13th | Defeated | |
Semnan | Hossein Kharrazi | Did not run | |||
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari | Ahmad Nourbakhsh | 24,753 | 72.92 | 1st | Won |
Mazandaran | Hassan Akbari-Marznak | Defeated | |||
Morad-Ali Zohari | Defeated | ||||
Seifollah Kabirian[b] | Defeated | ||||
Abouzar Vardasbi[b] | Defeated | ||||
Mohammad-Reza Rouhani | Did not run |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Schirazi, Asghar (1998), The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic, I.B. Tauris, p. 32, ISBN 9781860642531
- ^ a b Grote, Rainer; Röder, Tilmann J.; El-Haj, Ali M. (2016). Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam After the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 9780190627645.
- ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780815654322.
- ^ Daneshvar, Parviz (2016). Revolution in Iran. Springer. p. 138. ISBN 978-1349140626.
- ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 345. ISBN 9780815654322.
- ^ Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2010, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, p. 13
- ^ Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2012, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, pp. 60–61