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Political Parties ﻿ * ﻿ In Iran political parties did not exist until the year 1997, according to Kesselman. Of all the following there are three major ones to this day and they are:

1. *** **__Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF)__ This poplitical party was founded in 1998 by mid-career politicians who were leading members of Mohammad Khatami’s, fith president, campaign in the 1997 presidential elections. This is a reformist party now led by Mohammad Reza, Mohammad Khatami's brother. Main moto: "Iran for all Iranians" 2. *** **__Servants of Reconstruction__ This political party was initially commenced when a few technocrats came together, with the former president Rafsanjani, and created this political party. A variety of and upper and middle classes look up to this party. 3. *** **__Osulgarayan (Principalists)__ This political party is headed by Ahmadinajad. The party is followed mainly by rural, older, and more traditionalist citizens. 4. __Executives of Construction Party (Kargozaran)__ This political party was﻿﻿ founded by several members of the cabinet of the then president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__﻿__ <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">5. __Islamic Labor Party__ This political party was founded in 1996 by the leaders of Worker's House. The present leader of this party is Hossein Kamali and it is a reformist paty as well.<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__ ﻿ __

__ Who Can Vote? __ __Elections__ and disqualifying candidates. the cabinet members is indirect because the president chosen chooses cabinet ministers, but the Majles must approve. Indirect voting for the Chief Judge and the Supreme Leader because they are appointed by the Leader. The Leader also makes military appointments a runoff chooses between the top two winners. Gaurds supervising within mosques, but other than that there are no commissions to secure fairness.
 * __ ﻿ __Voting in present day is free of intimidation according to Kesselman
 * Age to vote is from 15 or 16 and up
 * Women to this day are allowed to vote
 * National elections take place every four years to choose the president.
 * Elections are not completely free and fair due to the Guardian Council approving
 * The interiot minister appoints the provincial governal-generals, indirect. Voting for
 * In the case of national elections a where the candidate does not win by the majority, then
 * To some extent there have been certain commissions to ensure fairness like having Revolutionary

__Noteworthy Elections__ from political parties obtaines less seats. The Majles for example only had the opportunity to hace 40 elected while the conservatives obtained 190 seats. What happened here was that the Guardian Council disqualified 3000 potential candidates. The seventh Majles candidates, leading reformers, had been disqualified and the people took it as the Guardian Council barring so many reformers.
 * Because of the unfairness the Guardian Council does elections in the year of 2008 fewer candidate
 * The people in rage with the Guardian Council because they thought what they had done was outrages was staying home.
 * Elections that have made a difference in Iran has not really occured, but somthing else did. Going from having the Shah to Ayatollah Khamenei.