1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election
Constitutional Convention elections were held in Iran on 3 and 4 August 1979. The result was a victory for the Islamic Republican Party. There were 10,784,932 votes cast in the elections, marking 51.71% turnout. Of all members elected, 68% were clerics.
Image: Mohammad Beheshti portrait
Image: Mehdi Bazargan 1979 (cropped)
Image: Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Image: Masoud Rajavi 1970's
The Islamic Republican Party was formed in 1979 to assist the Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini in their goal to establish theocracy in Iran. It was disbanded in 1987 due to internal conflicts.
Ali Khamenei at the party's office in Qom, 1983