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on making Iran an Islamic Republic (the Referendum of 12 Farvardin). In the debate over Iran's new revolutionary constitution it supported a parliamentary democracy with equal rights for women, adoption of the universal declaration of human rights and limited presidential powers. "Expressing concern
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The National Democratic Front was launched in early March 1979 at a meeting attended by approximately one million people. This was "at a time when all shades of secular opinion outside the guerrilla movements were beginning to sense the direction of Khomeini's political strategy" and opposed the
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over the freedom of elections and government control over the broadcast media," along with the National Front they announced they would boycott the election for the
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The NDF "emphasized political freedoms, guarantees for individual rights, access for all political groups to the broadcast media, the curbing of the
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and a "lawyer who had been active in human rights causes" before the downfall of the shah and the son of the fourth prime minister and the jurist
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thugs." On 12 August 1979 it scheduled a mass demonstration to protest the closure of newspapers such as
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It drew large crowds at its demonstrations but these were "ferociously attacked by gangs of
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Along with the Fadayan and some Kurdish groups, the NDP boycotted the March 30, 31,
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domination of the revolution by Islamist theocratics such as ran the
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Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President
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National Democratic Front
Leader
Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari
National Front
NCRI
Tehran
Ideology
Progressive liberalism
Political position
Centre-left
Politics of Iran
Political parties
Elections
Persian
romanized
Iranian Revolution
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari
Wikidata
Mohammad Mosaddegh
Ahmad Matin-Daftari
Iranian Revolution
liberal
Islamic Republic Party
National Front
Mehdi Bazargan
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Tudeh Party
National Front
Revolutionary Guards

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