Islamic Republican Party

The Islamic Republic Party became the ruling political party at the outset of postrevolutionary Iran, but it subsequently proved to be too volatile, and Khomeini ordered it disbanded in 1987. The Muslim People’s Republic Party, which once claimed more than three million members, and its leader,…

…a founding member of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP), which supported Khomeini and sought to advance Islamic principles and culture. In March 1981 he was appointed minister of education and carried on the work started by Mohammad Ali Rajaʾi in purging Iranian universities of Western cultural influences. In June 1981…

…leader of the newly founded Islamic Republican Party (IRP), which was the most important group in the Majles (parliament). Considered the most powerful man in Iran after Khomeini, Beheshti played a leading part in the U.S. hostage crisis and was instrumental in the dismissal in June 1981 of Abolhasan Bani-Sadr,…

…founding members of the loyalist Islamic Republican Party (IRP). He was injured in 1981 in one of a series of terrorist bombings that devastated the IRP’s upper echelon. Following the death of Pres. Mohammad Ali Rajaʾi and the IRP’s secretary-general in another such blast later that year, Khamenei was appointed…

…first political director of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP)—a prominent political organization until its dissolution in May 1987—and as editor in chief of the IRP’s official newspaper, Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī. He briefly served as foreign minister during the hostage crisis with the United States (1979–81), in which militants seized 66 American…

…leading member of the clergy-dominated Islamic Republican Party (IRP), a major supporter of the revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In August 1980, the Majles (parliament) elected Rajaʾi the Islamic Republic’s second prime minister, a post that had been vacant for some nine months following the resignation of Mehdi Bazargan—the three…