Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces

The Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces (PFIRF; Persian: جبهه مردمی نیروهای انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: Jebhe-ye Mardomi-ye Niruhā-ye Enqelāb-e Eslāmī) is a political organization in Iran, founded in late 2016 by ten figures from different spectrums of conservative factions.

Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces
جبهه مردمی نیروهای انقلاب اسلامی
AbbreviationJAMNA
ChairpersonMohammad Hassan Rahimian
SpokespersonMarzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi
Founders
List
    • Mohammad Hassan Rahimian
    • Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi
    • Mehdi Chamran
    • Yahya Ale Eshaq
    • Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee
    • Reza Roosta Azad
    • Mahmoud Khosravivafa
    • Mehdi Mohammadi
    • Alireza Marandi
    • Nader Talebzadeh
FoundedDecember 25, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-12-25)
Formation declared
ReligionShia Islam
National affiliationPrinciplists

The group has pledged to become the main rival for Hassan Rouhani in the 2017 presidential election, intending to introduce a single candidate from conservative camp as its umbrella organization. The front nominated Ebrahim Raisi as their presidential candidate after the withdrawal of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. However, Raisi lost the election to Rouhani and ranked second.

2017 conventions

February

It held its first convention on 23 February 2017, reportedly attended by 3,000 individuals from 25 parties, electing 30 members of its central council and voting for top 10 presidential prospects among its all-inclusive 21-man list. Ebrahim Raisi won the majority of votes in a plurality-at-large voting with 10 choices for each voter, the results were:

# Candidate (Party) Votes %
1 Ebrahim Raisi (CCA) 1,813 84.99
2 Parviz Fattah (FIRS) 1,661 77.87
3 Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (PJPII) 1,573 73.74
4 Alireza Zakani (SPIR) 1,552 72.76
5 Hamid-Reza Hajibabaei (YEKTA) 1,525 71.49
6 Ezzatollah Zarghami 1,477 69.24
7 Saeed Jalili (FIRS) 1,338 62.72
8 Mehrdad Bazrpash (FIRS) 1,265 59.30
9 Ali Nikzad (FIRS) 1,135 53.21
10 Rostam Ghasemi (YEKTA) 1,133 53.11
11 Mohsen Rezaee (RFII) 967 45.33
12 Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi (FIRS) 620 29.06
13 Mohammad Khoshchehreh 439 0.58
14 Mostafa Mirsalim (ICP) 400 18.75
15 Shahin Mohammad-Sadeghi 344 16.12
16 Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh 341 15.98
17 Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghadam (CCA) 320 15.00
18 Ebrahim Azizi (YEKTA) 297 13.92
19 Masoud Zaribafan (SDIR) 290 13.59
20 Mohammad Abbasi (YEKTA) 264 12.37
21 Alireza Zali (IAPA) 182 8.53
Invalid votes 217 10.17
Total voters 2,133 100
Source

April

The organization held its second convention on 6 April 2017 to elect the top five candidates, dropping Saeed Jalili because of his rejection of the Front’s mechanism. The results were as follows:

# Candidate (Party) Votes %
1 Ebrahim Raisi (CCA) 2,147 90.28
2 Alireza Zakani (SPIR) 1,546 65.01
3 Mehrdad Bazrpash (FIRS) 1,404 59.04
4 Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (PJPII) 1,373 57.73
5 Parviz Fattah (FIRS) 994 41.79
6 Hamid-Reza Hajibabaei (YEKTA) 991 41.67
7 Ali Nikzad (FIRS) 947 39.82
8 Ezzatollah Zarghami 930 39.10
9 Rostam Ghasemi (YEKTA) 683 28.72
10 Mohsen Rezaee (RFII) 660 27.75
Invalid votes 45 1.89
Total voters 2,378 100
Source

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