A new Iranian political party with social democratic leanings opened its first congress Thursday, aiming to lead reformists to victory in the Islamic republic's legislative elections next year. Reformists suffered a serious setback after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected president in 2009 in polls that losing candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi claimed were fraudulent. Mohammad Sadegh Kharrazi, one of Nedaye's founders, is an advisor to former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, who has **t joined the party but sent a message of good wishes to the congress. A former ambassador to France and the United Nations, Kharrazi told AFP Nedaye targets the "complete return of reformists to the Iranian political scene, support for the government of (President Hassan) Rouhani and supporting everyone who has reformist ideas." Rouhani, a cleric considered as a moderate, was elected in 2013 on a platform of greater political and cultural freedoms in a country long dominated by conservative forces.
02-26-2015, 08:56 PM
New Iran reformist party sets sights on legislative polls
A new Iranian political party with social democratic leanings opened its first congress Thursday, aiming to lead reformists to victory in the Islamic republic's legislative elections next year. Reformists suffered a serious setback after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected president in 2009 in polls that losing candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi claimed were fraudulent. Mohammad Sadegh Kharrazi, one of Nedaye's founders, is an advisor to former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, who has **t joined the party but sent a message of good wishes to the congress. A former ambassador to France and the United Nations, Kharrazi told AFP Nedaye targets the "complete return of reformists to the Iranian political scene, support for the government of (President Hassan) Rouhani and supporting everyone who has reformist ideas." Rouhani, a cleric considered as a moderate, was elected in 2013 on a platform of greater political and cultural freedoms in a country long dominated by conservative forces.
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