Executives of Construction Party

The Executives of Construction of Iran Party^[a] (Persian: حزب کارگزاران سازندگی ایران, romanized: Hezb-e Kārgozārān-e Sāzandegi-ye Irān) is a reformist^[8] political party in Iran, founded by 16^[5] members of the cabinet of the then President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in 1996.^[7][3] The party is a member of Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front.^[8]

Executives of Construction Party حزب کارگزاران سازندگی ایران
General Secretary	Hossein Marashi[1]
Spokesperson	Hossein Marashi[2]
Spiritual leader	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (deceased)[3]
Head of Council	Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani[4]
Founder	1996 Signatories Esmail Shooshtari Ataollah Mohajerani Mohsen Nourbakhsh Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Ali Najafi Morteza Mohammadkhan Issa Kalantari Akbar Torkan Mohammad Gharazi Bijan Namdar Zangeneh Gholamhossein Karbaschi Reza Amrollahi Gholamreza Forouzesh Mostafa Hashemitaba Gholamreza Shafeei Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh 1999 Founding board Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani Ataollah Mohajerani Mohsen Nourbakhsh Mohammad Ali Najafi Hossein Marashi Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani Reza Amrollahi
Founded	17 January 1996; 29 years ago (1996-01-17)[5]
Legalised	15 August 1999; 25 years ago (1999-08-15)[6]
Split from	Principlists[7]
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran
Newspaper	Kargozaran (2005–2008) Sazandegi (since 2018)
Ideology	Reformism[8] Technocracy[3] Pragmatism[9] Moderate conservatism Islamic democracy[10] Modern Right[3][11][12]
Political position	Centre-right[13][14][15][16]
Religion	Islam
National affiliation	Reformists
Slogan	Islamic Pride and Development of Iran[7]
Government	1 / 33
Parliament	1 / 290
Expediency Council	1 / 48
City Councils	5 / 320
Website
www.kargozaran.net/fa/
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Views and factions

Economically, the party supports free markets and industrialization, with a high emphasis on progress and development.^[3] The party takes the view that economic freedom is fundamentally linked to cultural and political freedom, but it should not be allowed to conflict with development.^[7] The party is divided into two factions in constant struggle, the more conservative "Kermani faction" led by Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hossein Marashi, and the more liberal "Isfahani faction" led by Mohammad Atrianfar and Gholamhossein Karbaschi.^[17]

Members

Founders

The party was formed in 1996. The following sixteen people were its founders; they signed the declaration of its formation.^[5] The founding board members registering the party with the Ministry of Interior in 1999 are marked in the rightmost column.^[6]

Name	1996	1999
Esmail Shooshtari	Y	—
Ataollah Mohajerani	Y	Y
Mohsen Nourbakhsh	Y	Y
Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani	Y	Y
Mohammad Ali Najafi	Y	Y
Morteza Mohammadkhan	Y	—
Issa Kalantari	Y	—
Akbar Torkan	Y	—
Mohammad Gharazi	Y	—
Bijan Namdar Zangeneh	Y	—
Gholamhossein Karbaschi	Y	—
Reza Amrollahi	Y	Y
Gholamreza Forouzesh	Y	—
Mostafa Hashemitaba	Y	—
Gholamreza Shafeei	Y	—
Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh	Y	—
Hossein Marashi	—	Y
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani	—	Y

Party leaders

Secretaries general Name Tenure Ref Gholamhossein Karbaschi 1998–2021 Hossein Marashi 2021–

Deputy secretaries-general Name Tenure Ref Hossein Marashi 1999–2014 Saeed Laylaz 2014–2019 Alireza Siasirad 2019–

Heads of Central Council Name Tenure Ref Mohammad-Ali Najafi 1998–2014 Eshaq Jahangiri 2014–2017 Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani 2017–

Spokespersons Name Tenure Ref Hossein Marashi 2006–

Current officeholders

Cabinet

• Eshaq Jahangiri (First Vice President)
• Bijan Namdar Zanganeh (Minister of Petroleum)
• Isa Kalantari (Vice President for Environment)

Parliament

• Parvaneh Mafi (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)
• Fatemeh Saeidi (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)
• Abdolreza Hashemzaei (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)
• Nahid Tajeddin (Isfahan)
• Mohammad-Bagher Sa'adat (Dashtestan)
• Masoud Rezaei (Shiraz)
• Vali Maleki (Meshginshahr)

Local

• Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani (Chairman of Tehran City Council)
• Shakur Akbarnejad (Chairman of Tabriz City Council)