Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front
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Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front
شورای هماهنگی جبهه اصلاحات |
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| Leader | Mohammad Khatami |
| Rotating president of the Council | Mahmoud Sadeghi |
| Founded | November 13, 1999 |
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran |
| National affiliation | Iranian reform movement |
The Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front or the Reformist Front Coordination Council (Persian: شورای هماهنگی جبهه اصلاحات) is the umbrella organization,coalition and council of main political groups within the Iranian reform movement.
On 13 November 1999, eighteen groups came together to form the "Council for coordinating of 2nd of Khordad Front" (Persian: شورای هماهنگی جبهه دوم خرداد) with the aim of laying down a unified reformist strategy. The coalitions's namesake, 2nd of Khordad, corresponds to 23 May on the Iranian calendar, is the day of Mohammed Khatami's landslide victory in the 1997 presidential election. The 18 groups were later nicknamed "2nd of Khordad Front G-18" (Persian: گروههای هیجدهگانه جبهه دوم خرداد).
They coalition was able to gain a supermajority in the Iranian Parliament election in 2000 and won almost all 30 seats in the most important constituency, Tehran. However, the coalition was "loose". While different groups of the coalition pursued slightly different priorities, on the whole they supported Mohammad Khatami's reforms.
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