Popular Party of Reforms

Popular Party of Reforms
General SecretaryMohammad Zare Foumani
FoundedFebruary 2012 as Popular Front of Reforms
LegalizedMarch 2013
National affiliationReformists Front

The Popular Party of Reforms (Persian: حزب مردمی اصلاحات, romanized: Ḥezb-e Mardomī-e Eṣlāḥāṭ‎) is a political party in Iran.

It is led by the cleric Mohammad Zare Foumani, who was fired by Mehdi Karroubi from his presidential campaign in 2009 and did not support Iranian Green Movement.

The party issued a statement in 2013 and supported candidacy of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for president.

References

  1. ↑ Political Parties to Meet at Interior Ministry, Financial Tribune, 23 June 2016, retrieved 3 March 2017
  2. ↑ "اعلام موجوديت جبهه مردمي اصلاحات" (in Persian). Young Journalists Club. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "حزب مردمی اصلاحات به جبهه اصلاح‌طلبان پیوست" (in Persian). Iranian Labour News Agency. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Charlie Szrom (13 May 2009), Mehdi Karrubi Biography and Campaign News, AEI Critical Threats Project, retrieved 3 March 2017
  5. ↑ Sahar Namazikhah (23 November 2010), Iranian Opposition Struggles to Survive, Institute for War & Peace Reporting, retrieved 3 March 2017, Mohammad Zare Foumani, a cleric who heads the Young Reformist Coalition – itself part of the new movement – has said the New Reform Front's members uphold the founding principles of the Islamic Republic and defend the rule of the Supreme Leader. That view seems out of step with the view of the opposition reformers. Green Movement leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami, said Foumani, are "fossils fit only for history and museums". He called for "a new revolution within the reformist movement", but it is fairly obvious that the only thing the front has in common with the reformers is its name.
  6. ↑ Iran Today: Still No Unity Candidate, Enduring America, 19 May 2013, retrieved 3 March 2017