National Front of Iran
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National Front
جبهه ملی |
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| Chairman | Vacant |
| Spokesperson | Davoud Hermidas-Bavand |
| Founder | Mohammad Mosaddegh |
| Founded | November 12, 1949 |
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran |
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| Political position | Centrism |
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The National Front of Iran (Persian: جبهه ملی ایران, translit. Jebha-ye Mellī-e Īrān) is an oppositionpolitical organization in Iran, founded by Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1949. It is the oldest and arguably the largest pro-democracy group operating inside Iran despite the fact that it never was able to recover its prominence in the early 1950s.
Initially, the front was an umbrella organization for a broad spectrum of forces with nationalist, liberal-democratic, socialist, bazaar. Secular and Islamic tendencies mobilized the National Front to successfully campaign for nationalization of Iranian oil industry. In 1951, the front formed a government which was forcefully deposed by the 1953 Iranian coup d'état and subsequently repressed. Members attempted to revive the front in 1960, 1965 and 1977.
Before 1953 and throughout the 1960s, the front was torn by strife between secular and religious elements and over the time has splintered into various squabbling factions, gradually emerging as the leading organization of secular liberals with nationalist members adhering to liberal democracy and social democracy.
Amidst Iranian Revolution, the front supported the replacement of the old monarchy by an Islamic Republic and was the main symbol of "nationalist" tendency in the early years of post-revolutionary government. It was banned in July 1981 and although officially remains illegal and under constant surveillance, is still active inside Iran.
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