Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President
AbbreviationOCPP[1]
LeaderAbolhassan Banisadr
FoundedDecember 1979[1]
Dissolved1981
NewspaperEnghelabe Eslami[2]
IdeologyIslamic liberalism
Islamic socialism
Iranian nationalism
Political positionCentre-left[3]
ReligionIslam

Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President (Persian: دفتر هماهنگی همکاری‌های مردم با رئیس‌جمهور) was a political organization in Iran that was closely associated to then-President Abolhassan Banisadr.[4]

Since Banisadr was skeptical of partisan activities in Iran, he did not like the idea of creating a party.[1] However, despite using the name "office", the organization "was created out of necessity to fulfill some, if not all, of the functions of a political party".[2] It had branches all over the country.[4]

Parliamentary election and presence

OCPP issued an electoral list for the 1980 Iranian legislative election,[4] that had candidates shared with the Freedom Movement, the National Front and the People's Mujahedin.[5] The exclusive candidates of OCPP included Fathollah Banisadr (his brother), Mohammad Moballeghi-Eslami (Banisadr's choice for Channel 2) and Mohammad Ja'fari (editor-in-chief of Enghelabe Eslami).[1] Ahmad Salamatian and Ahmad Ghazanfarpour were notable members elected to the parliament under banner of the organization.[4]

According to Houchang Chehabi, the group formed a minority in the parliament.[4] Siavush Randjbar-Daemi estimates that they were less than a dozen deputies, however initially some forty independents were also "ostensibly sympathetic to Banisadr".[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Randjbar-Daemi, Siavush (2017), The Quest for Authority in Iran: A History of The Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 23–25, ISBN 9781786732675
  2. ^ a b Mohammadighalehtaki, Ariabarzan (2012). Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat) (Ph.D. thesis). Durham University.
  3. ^ Brumberg, Daniel (2001). Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran. University of Chicago Press. p. 118. ISBN 0226077586.
  4. ^ a b c d e Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. pp. 283–286. ISBN 1850431981.
  5. ^ Bayram Sinkaya (2015). The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations. Iranian Studies. Vol. 25. 1317525647. p. 86. ISBN 978-1317525646.
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