Quintuple Coalition

Quintuple Coalition
Quintuple Coalition
Founded	1979
Ideology	Radicalism
Religion	Islam
Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution	5 / 73
	Politics of Iran; Political parties; Elections;

The Quintuple Coalition refers to the electoral alliance of five revolutionary groups contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election.^[1] The groups in coalition had Islamic and radical orientations.^[1]^[2] After the elections, the coalition sent an open letter to Ruhollah Khomeini and complained about "fraud".^[2]

Parties in coalition

Insignia of the groups in coalition

The five groups were:^[1]

Revolutionary Movement of Muslim People of Iran (JAMA), led by Kazem Sami
People's Mujahedin Organization (MEK), led by Massoud Rajavi
Movement of Militant Muslims (MMM), led by Habibollah Peyman
The Movement for Liberty, led by Asghar Sayyed Javadi^[3] – it was a newly-established and relatively small group that belonged to the center^[4]
Islamic Organization of Council (SASH), led by Habibollah Ashouri – The group was only briefly active in 1979^[5]

Candidates

On 18 July 1979, the coalition presented its candidates for all 10 seats in Tehran in an announcement published by Ayandegan.^[6]^[7]

Constituency	Candidate endorsed	Votes	%	Rank	Result
Tehran	Mahmoud Taleghani	2,016,801	79.86	1st	Won
	Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri	1,560,970	61.81	4th	Won
	Ezzatollah Sahabi	1,449,713	57.41	6th	Won
	Asghar Sayyed Javadi^[a]	298,360	11.81	11th	Defeated
	Massoud Rajavi^[b]	297,707	11.79	12th	Defeated
	Abdolkarim Lahiji	179,798	7.12	14th	Defeated
	Habibollah Peyman^[c]	164,644	6.52	15th	Defeated
	Nasser Katouzian^[a]	110,859	4.39	21st	Defeated
	Tahereh Saffarzadeh^[c]	101,778	4.03	22nd	Defeated
	Nezameddin Ghahari^[d]	36,791	1.46	31st	Defeated
East Azerbaijan	Ahmad Hanifnejad^[b]	76,173	8.47	13th	Defeated
	Hossein Khosrowshahi^[b]	27,966	3.11	14th	Defeated
	Mousa Sheikhzadegan	Did not run
Khorasan	Taher Ahmadzadeh	Did not run
	Mansour Bazargan^[b]	51,113	4.81	11th	Defeated
	Mahmoud Delasaei	26,772	2.52	18th	Defeated
	Sirous Sahami	Did not run
	Mohammad-Taghi Shariati	Did not run
	Mehdi Zarif-Asgari^[d]	23,976	2.26	19th	Defeated
Fars	Hassan Asadi-Lari^[d]	Did not run
	Javad Baraei^[b]	39,466	6.42	8th	Defeated
	Morteza Kasraeian^[d]	18,452	3.00	12th	Defeated
	Mohsen Mahlouji^[d]	26,074	4.24	10th	Defeated
Hamedan	Davoud Milani	Did not run
Hamedan	Yahya Naziri	8,583	2.38	5th	Defeated
Zanjan	Hadi Motameni^[d]	12,179	3.23	6th	Defeated
Zanjan	Karim Seyyed Javadi	Did not run
Gilan	Shahbaz Shahbazi^[b]	78,307	22.62	5th	Defeated
	Taher Khoshkholgh	15,473	4.47	9th	Defeated
	Hadi Pourgol	Did not run
Isfahan	Jalaleddin Taheri	787,687	83.33	1st	Won
	Mohammad Ahmadi-Foroushani	137,623	14.56	6th	Defeated
	Aboutorab Nafisi	7,205	0.76	14th	Defeated
	Rahmatollah Khaleghi	10,466	1.11	13th	Defeated
Semnan	Hossein Kharrazi	Did not run
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari	Ahmad Nourbakhsh	24,753	72.92	1st	Won
Mazandaran	Hassan Akbari-Marznak				Defeated
	Morad-Ali Zohari				Defeated
	Seifollah Kabirian^[b]				Defeated
	Abouzar Vardasbi^[b]				Defeated
	Mohammad-Reza Rouhani	Did not run

^ ^a ^b Member of the Movement for Freedom
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Member of the People's Mujahedin Organization
^ ^a ^b Member of the Movement of Militant Muslims
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Member of the JAMA

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Schirazi, Asghar (1998), The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic, I.B. Tauris, p. 32, ISBN 9781860642531
^ ^a ^b Grote, Rainer; Röder, Tilmann J.; El-Haj, Ali M. (2016). Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam After the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 9780190627645.
^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780815654322.
^ Daneshvar, Parviz (2016). Revolution in Iran. Springer. p. 138. ISBN 978-1349140626.
^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 345. ISBN 9780815654322.
^ Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2010, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, p. 13
^ Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2012, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, pp. 60–61

[MF-8] Member of the Movement for Freedom

[MEK-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Member of the People's Mujahedin Organization

[MMM-10] Member of the Movement of Militant Muslims

[JAMA-11] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Member of the JAMA

[Schirazi-1] Schirazi, Asghar (1998), The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic, I.B. Tauris, p. 32, ISBN 9781860642531

[OUP-2] Grote, Rainer; Röder, Tilmann J.; El-Haj, Ali M. (2016). Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam After the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 9780190627645.

[3] Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780815654322.

[4] Daneshvar, Parviz (2016). Revolution in Iran. Springer. p. 138. ISBN 978-1349140626.

[5] Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 345. ISBN 9780815654322.

[6] Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2010, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, p. 13

[7] Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2012, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, pp. 60–61

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Islamic Republic	Coalition of Islamic Parties Quintuple Coalition Grand coalition Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President Eponym Group Muslim People's Republic Party National Democratic Front Radical Movement of Iran People's Revolutionary Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran Azadegan Organization Front for the Liberation of Iran Islamic Republican Party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization Coalition of the Oppressed and Deprived Coalition of Imam's Line groups Association for Defence of Revolution Values Islamic Reconciliation Party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization Islamic Iran Participation Front Worker-communist Party of Iran
Active parties

v t e 1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election
Results	Tehran Khorasan East Azerbaijan Mazandaran Khuzestan Isfahan Fars West Azerbaijan Gilan Markazi Kerman Kermanshahan Hamedan Zanjan Lorestan Kordestan Sistan and Baluchestan Bushehr Semnan Yazd Hormozgan Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Ilam Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Armenians Assyrians Jews Zoroastrians
Electoral blocs	Great Islamic Coalition Quintuple Coalition Septuple Coalition Grand National Alliance
Related topics	Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran December 1979 Iranian constitutional referendum

Parties in coalition

Candidates

See also

References