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Iran's Ayatollahs urge unity among principlists
TEHRAN, Aug. 6 (MNA) – Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani and Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi have highlighted the need for making efforts to maintain unity among principlists.
The senior clerics issued the call for unity during the first meeting of the United Front of Principlists in Tehran on Thursday.
They also stated the Islamic and revolutionary principles of unity and enumerated positive achievements made by revolutionary figures as a result of maintenance of unity throughout the Islamic Revolution’s history.
Although prominent reformists, as main rivals of principlists, have been eliminated from the political scene and principlists are the dominant political force in Iran, principlist groups are worried about the outcome of the parliamentary election in March 2012.
Principlists believe that reformists will field moderate figures in the grey area and deviationists will do their utmost to gain seats in the parliament, so are trying to develop a mechanism to establish unity among various principlist groups in order not to lose their control of the Majlis.
In line with this policy, the 15-member unity committee, made up of the representatives of various principlist groups and parties, has been set up in a bid to create unity among principlists.
The committee is supposed to work within the framework of the charter of principlism, which was introduced by the Combatant Clergy Association and the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom in January.
The senior clerics issued the call for unity during the first meeting of the United Front of Principlists in Tehran on Thursday.
They also stated the Islamic and revolutionary principles of unity and enumerated positive achievements made by revolutionary figures as a result of maintenance of unity throughout the Islamic Revolution’s history.
Although prominent reformists, as main rivals of principlists, have been eliminated from the political scene and principlists are the dominant political force in Iran, principlist groups are worried about the outcome of the parliamentary election in March 2012.
Principlists believe that reformists will field moderate figures in the grey area and deviationists will do their utmost to gain seats in the parliament, so are trying to develop a mechanism to establish unity among various principlist groups in order not to lose their control of the Majlis.
In line with this policy, the 15-member unity committee, made up of the representatives of various principlist groups and parties, has been set up in a bid to create unity among principlists.
The committee is supposed to work within the framework of the charter of principlism, which was introduced by the Combatant Clergy Association and the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom in January.
