Iranian Reformist Front (Jebheye Eslathalabane Iran) was officially founded yesterday in Jamaran, Khomeini's historic house near Tehran.

The founding meeting elected Behzad Nabavi as an interim head since he is oldest.

And also 5 people as a committee to draft the IRF's by-laws

The five are:

1- Outspoken Tehran MP @mah_sadeghi
2- Faraj Komijani, politician with a base in an official teachers union
3- Ali Bagheri (low-key politician)
4- @MansooriAzar , noted reformist politician
5- Rouhani's ex-VP @mowlaverdi
Some more pictures of the meeting.

The next meeting of the group is on Wednesday and will be held virtually.

The top question remains whether and who (and how many candidates) to run for the coming #IranElections2021
The founding statement says the reformists will run a single candidate agreed by all reformist parties but only if elections are to be "free, legal, competitive, just and constitutional"... which is obviously not what's going to happen!
The founding statement also includes big demands like call for a referendum to revise the constitution. But as usual these big words aren't followed by any actions.
The IRF was formed after the High Policy Council of Reformists (which was formed of about 30 individuals each with one vote) had proved useless. But the IRF is effectively the HPCR that is slightly re-packaged.
The only difference is that now each party in IRF (30 in total) has one vote unlike HPCR where 'personalities' had one vote each and thus too much power. The other main difference is that Rouhani's party had people in HPCR but it's not in the IRF.
But many reformists had much more wide-ranging demands like holding American-style primaries, forming a larger reformist body with rank-and-file, etc. Such demands were especially puhsed by Sadegh Kharazi's @Neda_iranian party.

The old guard resisted all at the end.
The declared goal of the reformists is to not repeat what they did in 2005: i.e. introduce more than one candidate and thus split the vote (which led to Ahmadinejad's first victory)

or what they did in 2013 and 2017, i.e. back a non-reformist candidate like Rouhani.
Of course in 2009, they also introduced more than one candidates and split their own vote... but they faced mass vote-rigging and both their candidates from then are still in house detention after 10 years.
We need to wait and see who will reformists won but perhaps more importantly who will Khamenei's Guardian Council allow to run?

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Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W


Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
#KrishnaLeela


The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.


One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.


Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"