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1980 Iranian presidential election, the Glossary

Presidential elections were held for the first time in Iran on 25 January 1980, one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of the Islamic Revolution was in power.^[1]

42 relations: Abolhassan Banisadr, Ahmad Madani, Chief Justice of Iran, Combatant Clergy Association, Constitution of Iran, Council of the Islamic Revolution, Dariush Forouhar, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Demographics of Afghanistan, Fada'iyan-e Islam, Fedaian Organisation (Minority), Freedom Movement of Iran, Hassan Ayat, Hassan Habibi, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran, Islamic Republican Party, Jalaleddin Farsi, Jam-e Jam (newspaper), JAMA (political party), Kazem Sami, Massoud Rajavi, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Mokri, Movement of Militant Muslims, Nation Party of Iran, National Front (Iran), Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority), People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, President of Iran, Prime Minister of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Sadegh Khalkhali, Sadeq Tabatabaei, Socialist Workers' Party of Iran, Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, Supreme Leader of Iran, Tudeh Party of Iran, Write-in candidate.
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Abolhassan Banisadr

Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr (سید ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر; 22 March 1933 – 9 October 2021) was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident.

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Seyyed Ahmad Madani (سید احمد مدنی; July/August 1929 – 12 February 2006), mostly known as Ahmad Madani, was an Iranian politician, Commander of Iranian Navy (1979), governor of the Khuzestan province (1979–80) and candidate in the first Iranian presidential election.

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Chief Justice of Iran

The head of the Judicial System of the Islamic Republic of Iran (رئیس قوه قضائیه جمهوری اسلامی ایران), often called the chief justice of Iran, is the head of the Judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Head of Judiciary) and is responsible for its administration and supervision.

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Combatant Clergy Association

The Combatant Clergy Association (Jâme'e-ye Ruhâniat-e Mobârez) is a politically active group in Iran, but not a political party in the traditional sense.

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Constitution of Iran

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران, Qanun-e Asasi-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Iran) is the supreme law of Iran.

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Council of the Islamic Revolution

The Council of the Islamic Revolution (Šūrā-ye enqelāb-e eslāmi) was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Iranian Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned to Iran.

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Dariush Forouhar

Dariush Forouhar (داریوش فروهر; 18 August 1928 – 22 November 1998) was an Iranian pan-Iranist politician and leader of Nation Party of Iran.

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Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI; Hîzbî Dêmukratî Kurdistanî Êran, HDKA; Ḥezb-e Demokrāt-e Kordestān-e Īrān), also known as the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), is an armed leftist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, exiled in northern Iraq.

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Demographics of Afghanistan

The population of Afghanistan is around 41 million as of 2023.

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Fada'iyan-e Islam

Fadayan-e Islam (فدائیان اسلام; English; "Fedayeen of Islam" or "Self-Sacrificers of Islam") is a Shia fundamentalist group in Iran with a strong activist political and terrorist orientation.

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Fedaian Organisation (Minority)

Fedaian Organisation or Organization of Fadaiyan (Minority) (Sāzmān-e Fadāʾiān (aqallīyat)) is an Iranian exiled Marxist-Leninist organisation.

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Freedom Movement of Iran

The Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI) or Liberation Movement of Iran (LMI; Nahżat-e āzādi-e Irān) is an Iranian pro-democracy political organization founded in 1961, by members describing themselves as "Muslims, Iranians, Constitutionalists and Mossadeghists".

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Hassan Ayat

Hassan Ayat (24 June 1938 – 5 August 1981) was an Iranian politician.

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Hassan Habibi

Hassan Ebrahim Habibi (حسن حبیبی; 29 January 1937 – 31 January 2013) was an Iranian politician, lawyer, scholar and the first vice president from 1989 until 2001 under Presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution (انقلاب ایران), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (label), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions.

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Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran

The Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran (انجمن اسلامی معلمان ایران) is an Iranian reformist teacher's political organization/labor union.

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Islamic Republican Party

The Islamic Republican Party (IRP; Ḥezb-e Jomhūrī-e Eslāmī, also translated Islamic Republic Party) was formed in 1979 to assist the Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini in their goal to establish theocracy in Iran.

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Jalaleddin Farsi

Jaleleddin Farsi (جلال‌الدین فارسی; born 1934) is an Iranian politician who held various posts in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Jam-e Jam (newspaper)

Jam-e Jam (italic,; "Cup of Jam") is a Persian language daily newspaper published in Iran.

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JAMA (political party)

JAMA (جاما) is an Iranian political party founded in 1964.

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Kazem Sami

Kazem Sami (کاظمسامی; 1935 – 23 November 1988) was Iran's minister of health in the transitional government of Mehdi Bazargan and leader of The Liberation Movement of People of Iran (''JAMA'').

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Massoud Rajavi

Massoud Rajavi (مسعود رجوی, born August 18, 1948 – disappeared March 13, 2003) was an Iranian politician and revolutionary who became the leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) in 1979.

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Mehdi Bazargan

Mehdi Bazargan (مهدی بازرگان; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government.

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Mohammad Beheshti

Sayyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti (سیّد محمد حسینی بهشتی; 24 October 1928 – 28 June 1981) was an Iranian jurist, philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after the Revolution.

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Mohammad Mokri

Mohammad Mokri (محمد مکری; 1921 – July 12, 2007) was an Iranian scholar (Kurdologist) and author born in Kermanshah.

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Movement of Militant Muslims

The Movement of Militant Muslims (جنبش مسلمانان مبارز) is an Iranian Islamic socialist political group led by Habibollah Payman.

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Nation Party of Iran

Party of the Iranian Nation (or Nation Party of Iran, Iran Nation Party; Ḥezb-e Mellat-e Irān) is "a small opposition" party in Iran advocating establishment of a secular democracy.

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National Front (Iran)

The National Front of Iran (Jebhe-ye Melli-ye Irân) is an opposition political organization in Iran.

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Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority)

The Organization of Iranian People's Fadaian (Majority) (Sāzmān-e fedaiyān-e khalq-e Irān (aksariat)) is an Iranian left-wing opposition political party in exile.

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People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran

The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) (Sâzmân-ye Mojâhedin-ye Khalğ-ye Irân), is an Iranian dissident organization that was previously armed but has now transitioned primarily into a political advocacy group.

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President of Iran

The president of Iran (Rais Jomhure Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the Supreme Leader.

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Prime Minister of Iran

The prime minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century.

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Ruhollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 or 24 September 19023 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.

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Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (صادق قطب‌زاده, 24 February 1936 – 15 September 1982) was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and was foreign minister (30 November 1979 – August 1980) during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution.

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Sadegh Khalkhali

Mohammed Sadeq Givi Khalkhali (محمدصادق گیوی خلخالی; 27 July 1926 – 26 November 2003) was an Iranian Shia cleric who is said to have "brought to his job as Chief Justice of the revolutionary courts a relish for summary execution" that earned him a reputation as Iran's "hanging judge".

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Sadeq Tabatabaei

Sadeq Tabatabaei (صادق طباطبایی; 25 March 1943 – 21 February 2015) was an Iranian writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1980.

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Socialist Workers’ Party of Iran (Ḥezb-e kārgarān-e sūsīālīst-e Irān) is a small Iranian communist party exiled in England.

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Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom

The Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom (jâme'e madrasin howze 'ilmiah Qom) is an Iranian group founded in 1961/3 by the leading Muslim clerics of Qom.

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Supreme Leader of Iran

The supreme leader of Iran (Rahbar-e Moazam-e Irân), also referred to as Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution (رهبر معظمانقلاب اسلامی), but officially called the Supreme Leadership Authority (مقاممعظمرهبری), is the head of state and the highest political and religious authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran (above the President).

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Tudeh Party of Iran

The Tudeh Party of Iran (lit) is an Iranian communist party.

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Write-in candidate

A write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but seeks election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically writing in the person's name on the ballot.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Iranian_presidential_election

Also known as 1980 Iran Election, 1980 Iranian Election, 1980 Iranian Elections, Iran Election 1980, Iranian presidential election, 1980, The Iranian presidential election, 1980.

1980 Iranian presidential election, the Glossary

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See also

1980 elections in Asia

1980 elections in Iran

Aftermath of the Iranian Revolution

Presidential elections in Iran

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