He was also one of the prominent members of central council of the illegal Fourth National Front in late 1977, when the group was reconstituted as the Union of National Front Forces with Bakhtiar as head of the Iran Party (the largest group in the Front).
Ayrıca, 1977 sonlarında yasadışı Dördüncü Ulusal Cephe merkez konseyinin önde gelen üyelerinden biriydi ve grup, Bakhtiar ile İran Partisi (Cephedeki en büyük grup) başında Ulusal Cephe Güçleri Birliği olarak kuruldu.