# List of political parties in Iran

This article lists political parties in Iran.

## The course of faction and party relations

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Constitutionalists | Constitutionalists | Constitutionalists | Constitutionalists | Constitutionalists | Constitutionalists | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | SDP | SDP | SDP | SDP | SDP | SDP | | | | | | | | | | | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP |
| | | | | | | DP | DP | DP | DP | DP | DP | | | | | | | | | | | RP | RP | RP | RP | RP | RP |
| MP | MP | MP | MP | MP | MP | CPP | CPP | CPP | CPP | CPP | CPP | | | SP | SP | SP | SP | SP | SP | | | | | | | | |
| NP | NP | NP | NP | NP | NP | TP | TP | TP | TP | TP | TP | | | | | | | NF | NF | NF | NF | NF | NF | | | | |
| PRN | PRN | PRN | PRN | PRN | PRN | | | | | | | | | | | | | LM | LM | LM | LM | LM | LM | | | | |
| NC | NC | NC | NC | NC | NC | | | | | IRP | IRP | IRP | IRP | IRP | IRP | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Reformists | Reformists | Reformists | Reformists | Reformists | Reformists | | | | | | | Principlists | Principlists | Principlists | Principlists | Principlists | Principlists | | | | |

## Current composition
### Major factions

| Faction | Faction | Ideology | Year founded | Political position | 2024 Iranian presidential election | Legislators | Legislators | Legislators |
| Faction | Faction | Ideology | Year founded | Political position | Popular | Parliament | Assembly of Experts | Expediency Discernment Council |
| | Reformists | Republicanism | 1997 | Centre | 16,384,403 (54.8%) | 42 / 290 | 1 / 88 | 7 / 48 |
| | Principlists | Islamism | 1997 | Right-wing | 13,538,179 (45.2%) | 198 / 290 | 59 / 88 | 38 / 48 |

## Parties active inside Iran
### Parliament members

| Party | Founded | Leader | Faction | Political position | Parliament |
| CCIRF | 2019 | Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel | Principlists | Right-wing | 107 / 290 |
| FIRS | 2011 | Sadegh Mahsouli | Principlists | Far-right | 79 / 290 |
| VNC | 2012 | Ali Motahari | Reformists | Centre to Centre-right | 45 / 290 |
| CCA | 1977 | Mostafa Pourmohammadi | Principlists | Centre-right to Right-wing | 13 / 290 |
| IND | | | | | 46 / 290 |

### Principlists
#### Main active parties

| Party | Secretary-General |
| Combatant Clergy Association | Mostafa Pourmohammadi |
| Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom | Hashem Hosseini Bushehri |
| Islamic Coalition Party | Asadollah Badamchian |
| Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution | Mohammad Javad Ameri |
| Front of Islamic Revolution Stability | Sadegh Mahsouli |
| 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 | Malek Shariati [fa] |
| Islamic Association of Physicians | Hossein Ali Shahriari |
| 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 | Mehdi Vakilpour |
| Green Party | Hossein Kanani Moghaddam |
| Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran | Mohammad Saeed Ahadian |
| Modern Thinkers Party of Islamic Iran | Amir Mohebbian |
| Islamic Iran Freedom Party | Issa Kakoui |

### Reformists
#### Main active parties

| Party | Secretary-General |
| Association of Combatant Clerics | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha |
| Islamic Labour Party | Hossein Kamali |
| Executives of Construction Party | Gholamhossein Karbaschi |
| National Trust Party | Elias Hazrati |
| Union of Islamic Iran People Party | Ali Shakouri-Rad |
| NEDA Party | Sadegh Kharazi |
| Islamic Iran Freedom and Justice Organization | Amir Taheri |
| 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 | Seyed Hossein Mousavian |
| Iran Party (member of the National Front) | Nationalism Social Democracy | Secular | The party is managed by its central committee |
| Party of the Iranian People (member of the National Front) | Left-wing nationalism | Islamic | Mohammadsadeh Maserrat |
| Pan-Iranist Party | Pan-Iranism | Secular | Zahra Gholamipour |
| Nation Party | Pan-Iranism | Secular | Khosrow Seif |
| Movement of Militant Muslims | Socialism | Islamic | Habibollah Peyman |
| Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists | Nationalism | Islamic | None |
| Freedom Movement of Iran | Nationalism | Islamic | Mohammad Tavasoli |

## Opposition parties active in exile
### Monarchists/Liberal-Conservative

All monarchist organizations are secular and support restoring the Pahlavi dynasty:
| Party | Leader | Base |
| Kingdom Assembly of Iran (Tondar) | Frood Fouladvand | United States |
| Constitutionalist Party of Iran – Liberal Democrat | Foad Pashaie | United States |
| National Council of Iran | Reza Pahlavi II | France |
| Iran-Novin Party | Dr. Hamed Sheibanyrad | France |

### Ethnic

| Party | Ethnicity | Leader | Base |
| Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | Kurdish | Mustafa Hijri | Iraq |
| Kurdistan Democratic Party | Kurdish | Mostafa Moloudi | Iraq |
| Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan | Kurdish | Abdullah Mohtadi | Iraq |
| Komalah Organization of the Communist Party of Iran | Kurdish | Ibrahim Alizade | Iraq |
| Komala - Reform Faction | Kurdish | Omar Ilkhanizade | Iraq |
| Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan - Reunification Faction | Kurdish | Abdulla Konaposhi | Iraq |
| Kurdistan Freedom Party | Kurdish | Hussein Yazdanpanah | Iraq |
| Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle | Kurdish | Baba Sheikh Hosseini | Iraq |
| Kurdistan Free Life Party | Kurdish | Siamand Moini and Zîlan Vejîn | Turkey |
| Lorestan Party of Iran | Lurs | Faramarz Bakhtiar | Germany |
| Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement | Azeri | Mahmudali Chehregani | Azerbaijan |
| Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization | Azeri | Un­known | Azerbaijan |
| South Azerbaijan National Liberation Movement | Azeri | Piruz Dilanchi | Azerbaijan |

### Leftists

| Party | Leader | Base |
| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran National Council of Resistance of Iran | Maryam Rajavi | France Albania |
| Tudeh Party of Iran | Mohammad Omidvar | Germany United Kingdom |
| Communist Party of Iran | Un­known | Un­known |
| Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) | Un­known | Un­known |
| Laborers' Party of Iran | Un­known | Sweden |
| Labour Party of Iran (Toufan) | Un­known | Germany |
| Worker-communist Party of Iran | Hamid Taqvaee | Germany |
| Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist | Rahman Hosseinzadeh | Sweden |
| Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas | Ashraf Dehghani | United Kingdom |
| Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian – Majority | Behrouz Khaliq | Germany |
| Fedaian Organisation – Minority | Akbar Kamyabi | Netherlands |
| Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Identity | Mehdi Same | France |
| Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas | Hossein Zohari | Germany |
| Worker's Way | Un­known | Germany |
| Socialist Workers' Party of Iran | Un­known | United Kingdom |

### Others

| Party | Ideology | Leader | Base |
| Glorious Frontiers Party | Nationalism | Roozbeh Farahanipour | United States |
| Iranian Secular Democratic Party | Secularism | Esmail Nooriala | USA |
| Green Party of Iran | Green | Kazem Moussavi | Germany |
| Farashgard | Liberalism | 40 Activists | USA |
| Social Democratic and Laïc Party of Iran (member of National Front (Iran)) | Social democracy Secularism Nationalism | Farhang Ghasemi | France |

### Politically active groups

* ADFI
* NUFDI

## List of parties by political position

* Far left  Left  Centre left  Centre  Centre right  Right  Far right  Syncretic
| Party | Leader | Founded |
| CCA | Mostafa Pourmohammadi | 1977 |
| SST | Hashem Hosseini Bushehri | 1961 |
| ICP | Asadollah Badamchian | 1963 |
| SDIR | Mohammad Javad Ameri | 1995 |
| FIRS | Sadegh Mahsouli | 2011 |
| FCETI | Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee | 2015 |
| ISE | Mohammad Reza Bahonar | 1991 |
| SPIR | Malek Shariati | 2008 |
| IAP | Hossein-Ali Shahriyari | 1993 |
| ISE | Kamal Sajjadi | 1994 |
| ISA | Hassan Ghafourifard | 1998 |
| ZS | Aʿzam Hājī-Abbāsī | 1986 |
| AIRL | Hassan Ghafourifard | 2003 |
| SFI | Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei | 1946 |
| DJP | Mehdi Vakilpour | 2007 |
| Green Party | Hossein Kanani Moghaddam | 1999 |
| CCA | Mohammad Saeed Ahadian | 2008 |
| MTPI | Amir Mohebbian | 2006 |
| ACC | Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha | 1988 |
| MTPI | Hossein Kamali | 1998 |
| ECP | Hossein Marashi | 1996 |
| MTPI | Elias Hazrati | 2005 |
| NUP | Azar Mansouri | 2015 |
| NEDA | Shahabeddin Tabatabaei | 2014 |
| FGO | Mehdi Moghaddari | 1997 |
| MDP | Hassan Rouhani | 1999 |
| IAT | Abdolrazzagh Mousavi | 1999 |
| IAE | Ebrahim Asgharzadeh | 1977 |
| IAUI | Mahmoud Sadeghi | 1991 |
| AFIL | Hadi Khamenei | 1991 |
| ISP | Mohammad Salari | 1998 |
| Democracy Party | Mostafa Kavakebian | 1999 |
| HAMA | Ahmad Hakimipour | 1990 |
| IAL | Fatemeh Karroubi | 1998 |
| Worker House | Alireza Mahjoub | 1958 |
| PPR | Mohammad Zare Foumani | 2012 |
| IPF | Mohsen Mirdamadi | 1998 |
| MIRO | Mohammad Salamati | 1991 |
| GPH | Mir-Hossein Mousavi | 2009 |
| National Front | Seyed Hossein Mousavian | 1949 |
| Iran Party | Bagher Ghadiri-Asl | 1941 |
| Party of the Iranian People | Mohammadsadeh Maserrat | 1949 |
| Pan-Iranist Party | Dr. Sohrab Azam Zangane | 1941 |
| Nation Party | Khosrow Seif | 1951 |
| MMM | Habibollah Payman | 1977 |
| CNRA | Ezzatollah Sahabi | 2000 |
| FMI | Mohammad Tavasoli | 1961 |
| Tondar | Jamshid Sharmahd | 2004 |
| CPI | Fouad Pashaei | 1994 |
| NCI | Reza Pahlavi | 2013 |
| PDKI | Mustafa Hijri | 1945 |
| KDP | Khalid Azizi | 2006 |
| Komala | Abdullah Mohtadi | 1979 |
| KCPI | Ibrahim Alizade | 1984 |
| KTK | Omar Ilkhanizade | 2007 |
| KPKRF | Abdulla Konaposhi | 2008 |
| PAK | Hussein Yazdanpanah | 1991 |
| Khabat | Babeshekh Hosseini | 1980 |
| PJAK | Peyman Viyan | 2004 |
| SANAM | Mahmudali Chehregani | 2002 |
| ANRO | Babek Chalabiyanli | 2006 |
| PMOI | Maryam Rajavi | 1965 |
| TP | Navid Shomali | 1941 |
| CPI | Central committee | 1983 |
| CPIMLM | | 2001 |
| LPI | | 1979 |
| Toufan | | 1965 |
| WCP | Hamid Taqvaee | 1991 |
| WCP-H | Jamal Kamangar | 2004 |
| IFPG | Ashraf Dehghani | 1979 |
| OIPFM | Behruz Khaligh | 1980 |
| FOM | Akbar Kāmyābi | 1987 |
| OIPFG-FIP | Mehdi Sāme | 1983 |
| OIPFG | Ḥosayn Zohari | 1985 |
| WW | | 1978 |
| SWPI | Jamal Kamangar | 1979 |
| GFP | Roozbeh Farahanipour | 1998 |
| GPI | Kazem Moussavi | 1999 |
| IR | | 2018 |