Hezbollah fraction

Hezbollah fraction (Persian: فراکسیون حزب‌الله‎, romanized: Feraksiyon-e Hezbollah, lit. 'Parliamentary Party of God')[1] was the conservative parliamentary group in the Iranian Parliament between 1996 and 2000.

Hezbollah fraction
Chamber	Iranian Parliament
Legislature(s)	5th
Foundation	1996
Dissolution	2000
Member parties	Combatant Clergy Association Islamic Coalition Party Islamic Society of Engineers
President	Ali-Akbar Hosseini
Ideology	Conservatism

Its leader was Ali-Akbar Hosseini.[2]

Political position

The group was formed as a countermove to establishment of the 'Hezbollah Assembly',[1] its main rival parliamentary group.[2]

Its members had been contested in the elections while included in the electoral list of the Combatant Clergy Association (CCA).[3] Formed by the "traditionalist right",[1] CCA members shaped core of the fraction.[2] Islamic Coalition Party and Islamic Society of Engineers were other prominent parties in the group.[4]

References

1. Buchta, Wilfried (2000), Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic, Washington DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, p. 147, ISBN 0-944029-39-6
2. Banks, Arthur S.; Day, Alan J.; Muller, Thomas C. (2016), Political Handbook of the World 1998, Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 433, ISBN 9781349149513
3. Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Group known as Anssar-e Hizbollah (Ansar/Anzar e Hezbollah), 18 September 2000, IRN34994.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be430.html [accessed 24 December 2019]
4. Mehdi Moslem (2002), Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran, Syracuse University Press, p. 239, ISBN 9780815629788