Party in the View of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjan

Subject Areas : Political and International Researches Quarterly

Mohammad Reza Ali Hoseini Abbasi ¹ , Khodayar Mortazavi Acel ² , Seyed Ataollah Sinaei ³

1 - PhD Student in Political Science (Iran Issues), Faculty of Law and Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, Corresponding Author
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-09-22 Accepted : 2021-09-22 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: Islamic Revolution, democracy, party, Hashemi Rafsanjani,

Abstract :

From the 1820s onwards, parties emerged as a way to achieve democracy and played a role in governing countries. In Iran, following the constitution, parties began to operate. But to the circumstances, their role in governance was different. In this article, with the author-centered hermeneutic method as a step in the evolution of research on the position of parties in Iran, we study the attitude and role of Hashemi Rafsanjani as one of the active elements in the struggles before the revolution and from the foundations of the government after the revolution as a central question. After examination, we see that he believes in organizational and civic work as well as the party, and is one of the founders of the Society of Fighting Clergy and the Islamic Republic Party and the Construction Agents Party. He considered the possibility of partisanship to be subject to the political conditions and understanding of the society and encouraged the new party system in Iran.