Association of Combatant Clerics

Not to be confused with Combatant Clergy Association.

The Association of Combatant Clerics^[a] (Persian: مجمع روحانیون مبارز, romanized: Majma'-e rowhāniyūn-e mobārez) is an Iranian reformist clerical political party. It is regarded as a left-wing party within the Iranian political spectrum.^[3]

Association of Combatant Clerics مجمع روحانیون مبارز
General Secretary	Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
Spokesperson	Majid Ansari
Head of Council	Mohammad Khatami
Founded	March 16, 1988; 37 years ago (1988-03-16)
Legalized	February 7, 1989; 36 years ago (1989-02-07)[1]
Split from	Combatant Clergy Association[2]
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran
Newspaper	Salam[2]
Ideology	Islamic democracy Reformism Clericalism
National affiliation	Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front
Other affiliation	Coalition For Iran (2004)
Website
rouhanioon.com
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History

Party's old logo

The Association of Combatant Clerics was founded in 1987 after abolition of the Islamic Republican Party, the last political party of that time. The association was originally radical, populist,^[4] rather than reformist in orientation, and favored a focus "on exporting the revolution and calling for the state's monopoly over the economy,"^[5] rather than democracy and freedom of expression. As of 2007, it advocated limits on clerical power in Iranian politics and extending individual freedoms—though not to the extent that might "lead to secularism or liberalism."^[6]

After the resignation of Mehdi Karroubi from the post of secretary general, the party had no secretary general until late August 2005, when Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha was elected as the new secretary general. Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami is the Chairman of the association's Central Council.

Members

According to Muhammad Sahimi, the party "has a significant number of followers and sympathizers among the younger clerics".^[7]

Central council members

28 members of the party's central council are:

Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha (Secretary-General) Majid Ansari (Speaker) Mohammad Khatami (Head of Council) Mohammad Hashemi Hadi Khamenei Ali Ajam Mohammad-Ali Abtahi Mohammad-Ali Ansari Mohammad Mousavi-Bojnourdi

Issa Velayi Mohammad Razavi Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi Ali-Akbar Ashtiani Mohammad-Ali Khosravi Taqi Durchih'i Serajeddin Mousavi Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi Fazel Ferdosi

Ali-Asghar Rahmani Khalili Assadollah Kian-Ersi Mohammad Moghaddam Mojtaba Nourmofidi Mohammad-Ali Nezamzadeh Mehdi Emam-Jamarani Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari Mohammad-Ali Sadoughi Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani

Other members

• Mehdi Karroubi (former member)
• Sadegh Khalkhali (deceased)
• Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur (deceased)
• Hadi Ghaffari
• Rasoul Montajabnia
• Abdollah Nouri
• Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli (deceased)
• Hassan Sane'i
• Mahmoud Doayi
• Ghodratollah Alikhani
• Mohammad-Ali Rahmani

See also

• Political parties in Iran
• Clericalism in Iran

Notes

1. The party's name has been alternately translated Association of Militant Clergy, Assembly of Combatant Clerics, and Combatant Clerics League