Front of Islamic Revolution Stability

The Front of Islamic Revolution Stability (Persian: جبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: Jebha-ye pāydārī-e enqelāb-e eslāmī, also translated Persevering Front,^[6] Endurance Front^[7] and Steadfast Front)^[8] is an Iranian principlist political group described as "extreme end of the fundamentalist camp" and "Iran’s most right-wing party".^[9]

Front of Islamic Revolution Stability جبههٔ پایداری انقلاب اسلامی
Secretary-General	Sadegh Mahsouli
Spokesperson	Majid Mottaghifar
Spiritual leader	Taqi Yazdi (deceased)
Deputy Secretary General	To be determined
Women's wing chairwoman	Fatemeh Alia[1]
Student wing chairman	Jalal Abbasian[1]
Founded	28 July 2011; 13 years ago (2011-07-28)[2]
Legalized	23 September 2014; 10 years ago (2014-09-23)
Preceded by	Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude[3]
Newspaper	Unofficial: Partow-e Sokhan Noh Day
Ideology	Absolute Guardianship of the Jurist Religious conservatism Islamic fundamentalism Right-wing populism Islamism[4]
Political position	Far-right[5]
National affiliation	Principlists Coalition
Slogan	Rationality, Spirituality, Justice[1]
Parliament	79 / 290
Website
http://www.jebhepaydari.ir
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The group was established as an electoral list for the 2012 legislative election. The front is partly made up of former ministers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Taqi Yazdi is said to be the "spiritual leader" behind the group.^[10]

The front declares that it stands against both "sedition" (2009 Iranian presidential election protests) and the "deviant current". Rajanews website is its online mouthpiece.^[1]

Views

The Economist described them as "Shia supremacists who oppose any kind of compromise with anyone inside or outside Iran".^[11]

The group's influence extends to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), where they've strategically positioned clerics and commanders who share their hardline ideologies. Many of the recent generation's commanders have undergone extensive training at summer camps conducted by clerics from this group.^[11]

History

In 2013, the front supported Saeed Jalili for president after Kamran Bagheri Lankarani's withdrawal,^{[citation needed]} and it released electoral lists for local elections in several cities, with a landslide victory in Mashhad City Council.^[12]

In recent years, the group has been influential in passing new laws, such as chastity laws, and in attempts to reinstate the mandatory hijab, which had seen a de facto suspension following widespread protests in 2022.^[11]

Election results

President

Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Rank
2013	Saeed Jalili	4,168,946	11.36%	3rd
2017	Ebrahim Raisi	15,786,449	38.28%	2nd
2021	Ebrahim Raisi	18,021,945	62.90%	1st
2024	Saeed Jalili	13,538,179	45.24%	2nd

Parliament

Election	Seats	+/−	Ref
2012	85 / 290 (29%)		[a][13]
2016	24 / 290 (8%)	58	[14]
2020	8 / 290 (3%)	16
2024	79 / 290 (27%)	71

City councils

Council	2013		2017
	Seats	Ref	Seats
Tehran	8 / 31 (26%)	[12]	0 / 21 (0%)
Mashhad	15 / 25 (60%)	[12]	0 / 15 (0%)
Qom	19 / 21 (90%)	[b]
Tabriz	3 / 21 (14%)	[c]	0 / 13 (0%)
Isfahan	4 / 21 (19%)	[16]	0 / 13 (0%)

Members

Party leaders

Secretaries-general Name Tenure Ref Morteza Aghatehrani 2011–2021 Sadegh Mahsouli 2021–present

Deputy secretaries-general Name Tenure Ref Sadegh Mahsouli 2016–2020 TBD

Spokespersons Name Tenure Ref Kamran Bagheri Lankarani 2011–2013 Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi 2013 Nasser Biria 2013–2016 Majid Mottaghifar 2016–present

Current officeholders

Parliament members

• Ahmad Salek (Isfahan)
• Mohammad Esmaeil Saeidi (Tabriz)
• Mojtaba Zonnour (Qom)
• Ahmad Amirabadi (Qom)
• Javad Karimi-Ghodousi (Mashhad)
• Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi (Mashhad)
• Nasrollah Pejmanfar (Mashhad)
• Ehsan Ghazizadeh Hashemi (Fariman)
• Hossein Naghavi-Hosseini (Varamin)
• Mohammad-Mehdi Zahedi (Kerman)
• Mohammad-Javad Abtahi (Khomeinishahr)
• Hossein-Ali Haji-Deligani (Shahin Shahr)
• Alireza Salimi (Mahallat)