The
Combatant Clergy Association (Jame'e-ye
Rowhaniyat-e Mobarez) or (جامعه روحانیت مبارز in Persian), is a political party in Iran
. It
is a pragmatic-conservative clerical party, and was the majority
party in the fourth and fifth parliaments after the
Islamic revolution. It was founded in
1977 by a group of clerics with intentions to use culture to
overthrow
the Shah. Its founding members
were
Ali Khamenei,
Morteza Motahhari,
Mohammad Beheshti,
Mohammad Javad Bahonar,
Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and
Mohammad Mofatteh and its current members
include
Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani,
Mohammad-Reza
Mahdavi Kani,
Reza Akrami and
Hassan Rohani. Not to be confused with
the reformist
Association of Combatant
Clerics.
See also
References
- akhbare-rooz (iranian political Bulletin)
- : KHATAMI Museum :