The Grand National Alliance ( Persian : اتحاد بزرگ ملّی , romanized : etteḥād-e bozorg-e mellī ) was a secular electoral alliance contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election . The candidates listed by this coalition mostly included communists and nationalists.
6-474: The groups named in the coalition's declaration of existence, were: The candidates endorsed by the coalition for Tehran Province , were: Of the ten candidates, only two won the election who were also listed by the Coalition of Islamic Parties . Four belonged to the coalition partners, who were all defeated. They included communists Ali Sadeghi, Majid Zarbakhsh, Farideh Garman and Hadi Soudbakhsh. Farideh Garman
12-690: The Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution It resulted in a landslide victory or the Coalition of Islamic Parties , which all of its candidates won with a wide margin. Unlike other constituencies, the coalition's list of candidates was not dominated by the Khomeinists in the Islamic Republican Party and included four of their moderate rivals. Mahmoud Taleghani , the popular cleric who
18-681: The 'Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party' which was itself an offshoot of the Tudeh Party of Iran . The provincial candidates who were supported at least by one of the coalition partners were: 1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Tehran Province On 3 August 1979, Constitutional Convention election was held in Tehran Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide ten seats for
24-613: The congress of the General Union of Palestinian Students , before visiting Ruhollah Khomeini in Najaf to ensure him that CISNU was both anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist. He also agreed to consider publishing more onn Islamic aspects of opposition to Shah in that meeting. He was, along with Bahman Nirumand and Mehdi Khanbaba-Tehran, part of the triumvirate of the 'Cadres of the Revolutionary Organization', an organization split from
30-673: Was an architect who had just returned to Iran after settling for 14 years in Italy. Majid Zarbakhsh (born 1940 in Abadan, Iran ) was a former student leader who had arrived in the West Germany to study and was involved in anti-Shah protests with German students associated with the New Left . In August 1969, as a secretary of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CISNU) he went to Jordan and participated in
36-634: Was endorsed by groups in a wide range of political spectrum, was ranked first and gained almost 80% of votes. Other coalitions including the Quintuple Coalition and the Grand National Alliance were defeated and none of their candidates, exempting those shared with the Islamic coalition, performed well. The former's top exclusive candidates, Asghar Sayyed Javadi and Massoud Rajavi , received no better than 12% of all votes cast. No secular group
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