The Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, also known as the Paydari Front, is an Iranian principlist political group led by Sadegh Mahsouli as secretary-general since 2021.
The group was established as an electoral list for the 2012 legislative election. Mahdi Mirbaqiri is said to be the "spiritual leader" behind the group, while Mojtaba Khamenei has been reported to be the patron of the group. Rajanews is its online mouthpiece.
History The predecessor of the party was the Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude. The Front of Islamic Revolution Stability was founded on 28 July 2011. It was established as an electoral list for the 2012 legislative election
In 2013, the front supported Saeed Jalili for president after Kamran Bagheri Lankarani's withdrawal, and it released electoral lists for local elections in several cities, with a landslide victory in Mashhad City Council.
In recent years, the group has been influential in passing new laws, such as chastity laws, and in attempts to reinstate the mandatory hijab, which had seen a de facto suspension following widespread protests in 2022.
Description and people
The Persian name Jebhe-ye pāydārī-ye enqelāb-e eslāmī is variously translated as Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, Persevering Front, Endurance Front, Steadfast Front and Paydari Front.
The group's slogan is "Rationality, Spirituality, Justice".
The party comprises, among others, former ministers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Mahdi Mirbaqiri is said to be the "spiritual leader" behind the group, while Mojtaba Khamenei has been reported to be the patron of FIRS.
, Mojtaba Khamenei is the patron of the party.
, Fatemeh Alia was the Women's Wing chairwoman, while the Student wing chairman was Jalal Abbasian.
Views The party's views are based on Islamic fundamentalism, Wilāyat al-Faqīh (Absolute), and Mahdism. The party's views have been consistently described as far-right by various analysts, including Saeed Barzin of BBC News in 2012 and Maryam Sinaiee of Iran International in 2025.
The front declares that it stands against both "sedition" (2009 Iranian presidential election protests) and the "deviant current". Rajanews website is its online mouthpiece.
The Economist described them as "Shia supremacists who oppose any kind of compromise with anyone inside or outside Iran", and as "the extreme end of the fundamentalist camp" and "Iran's most right-wing party".
The group's influence extends to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), where they have strategically positioned clerics and commanders who share their hardline ideologies. Many of the recent generation's commanders have undergone extensive training at summer camps conducted by clerics from this group.
Election results President ElectionCandidateVotes%Rank2013Saeed Jalili4,168,94611.36%3rd2017Ebrahim Raisi15,786,44938.28%2nd2021Ebrahim Raisi18,021,94562.90%1st2024Saeed Jalili13,538,17945.24%2nd
Parliament ElectionSeats+/−Ref20122016 582020 162024 71
City councils Council20132017SeatsRefSeatsTehranMashhadQomTabrizIsfahan
Members Party leaders
+ Secretaries-generalNameTenureRefMorteza Aghatehrani2011–2021Sadegh Mahsouli2021–present
+ Deputy secretaries-generalNameTenureRefSadegh Mahsouli2016–2020TBD
+ SpokespersonsNameTenureRefKamran Bagheri Lankarani2011–2013Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi2013Nasser Biria2013–2016Majid Mottaghifar2016–present
Current officeholders
Parliament members Ahmad Salek (Isfahan) Mohammad Esmaeil Saeidi (Tabriz) Mojtaba Zonnour (Qom) Ahmad Amirabadi (Qom) Javad Karimi-Ghodousi (Mashhad) Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi (Mashhad) Nasrollah Pejmanfar (Mashhad) Ehsan Ghazizadeh Hashemi (Fariman) Hossein Naghavi-Hosseini (Varamin) Mohammad-Mehdi Zahedi (Kerman) Mohammad-Javad Abtahi (Khomeinishahr) Hossein-Ali Haji-Deligani (Shahin Shahr) Alireza Salimi (Mahallat)
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