Septuple Coalition Explained

Septuple Coalition
Leader:Collective leadership
Foundation:July 1979
Ideology:
Position:Far-left
Seats1 Title:Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Country:Iran

The Septuple Coalition was the electoral alliance of seven communist political groups contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election with the stated objective of "exposé". The alliance also endorsed candidates of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas –which was not part of the coalition– despite the differences between them.

Their main base of support came from lower and lower-middle class students. The leading candidate in the list was Morteza Aladpoush who received only 49,979 votes in Tehran constituency.

Political position

They rejected the draft constitution as a "proof of bourgeois treason against the revolution and the people" and the way the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution was mandated by the Council of the Islamic Revolution. According to Aladpoush (as quoted by Ayandegan), "The constitutional assembly which was promised to be held in the beginning would have provided the opportunity for some progressive elements, democratic and even leftists to find their way to the assembly and turn it into a scene of involvements between the forces which want to continue the revolution and the ones which want to stop and take it backwards. So, they created a new assembly by the name of Majles-e-Khebregan (The Experts Assembly) and imposed it on the people, so that with the few number of representatives, the labor representatives and those of hard working class could not get into the assembly in a short period of time the assembly would sign the official document for the cruel leadership of the ruling forces".

Parties in coalition

The groups in coalition were:

See also

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953. Encyclopædia Iranica. 27 October 2011. 15 December 1992. Bibliotheca Persica Press. New York City. VI. Ḥaqšenās. Torāb. Yarshater. Ehsan. 12 September 2016. Fasc. 1. 105–112.
  2. Book: Mehrzad. Boroujerdi. Kourosh. Rahimkhani. Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. 9780815654322. 2018. 333.
  3. Book: Mehrzad. Boroujerdi. Kourosh. Rahimkhani. Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. 9780815654322. 2018. 340.
  4. Encyclopedia: COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953. Encyclopædia Iranica. October 27, 2011. December 15, 1992. Bibliotheca Persica Press. New York City. VI. Ḥaqšenās. Torāb. Yarshater. Ehsan. Ehsan Yarshater. September 12, 2016. Fasc. 1. 105–112.