Pervasive Coalition of Reformists

"List of Hope" redirects here. For parliamentary group, see Hope fraction.

Pervasive Coalition of Reformists: The Second Step (Persian: ائتلاف فراگير اصلاح‌طلبان: گام دوم), named The List of Hope (Persian: لیست امید) by Mohammad Khatami,^[1] was the sole coalition and electoral list affiliated with the Iranian reform movement for the 2016 legislative election. The group also endorsed candidates for the 2016 Assembly of Experts election. Reformists backed a list of 236 candidates for the Parliament and 77 for the Assembly of Experts, even though many of them are not reformists but moderate-leaning figures.^[2]

Pervasive Coalition of Reformists ائتلاف فراگير اصلاح‌طلبان
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Chairman	Ali Soufi
Spokesperson	Mahmoud Mirlohi
Head of Policymaking Council	Mohammad Reza Aref
Fraction	Hope
Ideology	Reformism
National affiliation	Iranian Reformists
Colours	Persian Blue
Slogan	"Hope and Serenity, Economic Bloom"
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The coalition includes Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front member groups, National Trust Party (close to Mehdi Karroubi), newly established Union of Islamic Iran People Party, Moderation and Development Party (close to Hassan Rouhani) and the principlist Followers of Velayat faction led by Ali Larijani.

Allied groups

• Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front

• • Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers
  • Association of Combatant Clerics
  • Association of Followers of the Imam's Line
  • Assembly of Parliamentary Sessions Representatives
  • Executives of Construction Party
  • Islamic Assembly of Ladies
  • Islamic Association of Elites
  • Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran
  • Islamic Association of University Instructors
  • Islamic Association of Women
  • Islamic Iran Participation Front
  • Islamic Iran Solidarity Party
  • Islamic Labour Party
  • Islamic Society of Physicians
  • Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization
  • Office for Strengthening Unity
  • Women's Journalist Association
  • Worker House
  • Democracy Party
  • Will of the Iranian Nation Party
  • Islamic Iran Youth Party
  • Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society
  • Islamic Association of Researchers
  • Islamic Association of Engineers
  • Assembly of Educators of Islamic Iran
  • Assembly of Graduates of Islamic Iran
  • Cultural Council of Islamic Iran

• Moderation and Development Party
• National Trust Party
• Union of Islamic Iran People Party
• Followers of Wilayat

Endorsing non-members

• Freedom Movement of Iran^[3]
• Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran^[4]

Electoral performance

Year	Body	Seats	Ref
2016	Parliament	121 / 290(42%)	[5]
	Assembly of Experts	52 / 88(59%)	[5]

Endorsements

Those who are concerned about the country's interests, progress and removal of threats and limitations should vote for all individuals on both [People's Experts and Pervasive Coalition of Reformists] lists, "I repeat, for all individuals on both lists".^[6]

— Mohammad Khatami, on a video message

Presidents

• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani^[7]
• Mohammad Khatami^[1]
• Hassan Rouhani (Tacit)^[8]

Speakers of the Parliament

• Mehdi Karroubi^[8]
• Ali Larijani (Part of alliance)

Political figures

• Mostafa Moein
• Sadegh Zibakalam
• Behzad Nabavi
• Mostafa Tajzadeh

Directors, actors and actresses

• Kiumars Pourahmad^[9]
• Asghar Farhadi^[9]
• Fatemeh Motamed-Arya^[9]
• Hedieh Tehrani^[9]
• Taraneh Alidoosti^[9]
• Reza Kianian^[9]
• Shahab Hosseini^[9]
• Niki Karimi^[9]
• Mahnaz Afshar^[9]
• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad^[9]
• Leili Rashidi^[9]
• Amir Jafari^[9]
• Mahtab Keramati^[9]
• Hamid Farrokhnezhad^[9]
• Bahram Radan^[9]
• Peyman Ghasem Khani^[9]