Executives of Construction Party

The Executives of Construction of Iran Party[lower-alpha 1] (Persian: حزب کارگزاران سازندگی ایران‎) is a reformist[8] political party in Iran, founded by 16[5] members of the cabinet of the then President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in 1996.[7][3] The party is a member of Council for coordinating the Reforms Front.[8]

Executives of Construction Party
General Secretary	Gholamhossein Karbaschi[1]
Spokesperson	Hossein Marashi[2]
Spiritual leader	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (deceased)[3]
Head of Council	Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani[4]
Founder	1996 Signatories Esmail Shooshtari Ataollah Mohajerani Mohsen Nourbakhsh Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Ali Najafi Morteza Mohammadkhan Issa Kalantari Akbar Torkan Mohammad Gharazi Bijan Namdar Zangeneh Gholamhossein Karbaschi Reza Amrollahi Gholamreza Forouzesh Mostafa Hashemitaba Gholamreza Shafeei Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh 1999 Founding board Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani Ataollah Mohajerani Mohsen Nourbakhsh Mohammad Ali Najafi Hossein Marashi Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani Reza Amrollahi
Founded	17 January 1996[5]
Legalised	15 August 1999[6]
Split from	'Traditional Right'[7]
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran
Newspaper	Kargozaran (Official) Unofficial:[5] Zan Ham-Mihan Hamshahri (1990s)[3] Bahman
Ideology	Reformism[8] Technocracy[3] Pragmatism[9] Liberal democracy[10]
Political position	'Modern Right'[3][11]
Religion	Islam
National affiliation	Council for coordinating the Reforms Front
International affiliation	None
Slogan	Islamic Pride and Development of Iran[7]
Tehran City Council	3 / 21
Tabriz City Council	1 / 13
Shiraz City Council	1 / 13
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Views and factions

Economically, the party supports free markets and industrialization; with a high emphasis on the progress and development.[3] The party takes the view that economic freedom is fundamentally linked to cultural and political freedom, but it should not be allowed to conflict with development.[7] The party is divided into two factions in constant struggle, the more conservative "Kermani faction" led by Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hossein Marashi and the more liberal "Esfahani faction" led by Mohammad Atrianfar and Gholamhossein Karbaschi.[12]

Members

Founders

The party was formed in 1996. The following sixteen people were its founders; they signed the declaration of its formation[5] and founding board members registering the party in Ministry of Interior in 1999 were:[6]

Name	1996	1999
Esmail Shooshtari		N/A
Ataollah Mohajerani
Mohsen Nourbakhsh
Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mohammad Ali Najafi
Morteza Mohammadkhan		N/A
Issa Kalantari		N/A
Akbar Torkan		N/A
Mohammad Gharazi		N/A
Bijan Namdar Zangeneh		N/A
Gholamhossein Karbaschi		N/A
Reza Amrollahi
Gholamreza Forouzesh		N/A
Mostafa Hashemitaba		N/A
Gholamreza Shafeei		N/A
Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh		N/A
Hossein Marashi	N/A
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani	N/A

Party leaders

Secretary-Generals Name Tenure Ref Gholamhossein Karbaschi 1996–

Deputy Secretary-Generals Name Tenure Ref Hossein Marashi 1996–2014 Saeed Laylaz 2014–2019 Alireza Siasirad 2019–

Heads of Central Council Name Tenure Ref Mohammad-Ali Najafi 1996–2014 Eshaq Jahangiri 2014–2017 Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani 2017–

Spokespersons Name Tenure Ref Hossein Marashi 1996–

Current officeholders

Cabinet

• Eshaq Jahangiri (First Vice President)
• Bijan Namdar Zanganeh (Minister of Petroleum)
• Isa Kalantari (Vice President for Environment)

Parliament

• Parvaneh Mafi (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)
• Fatemeh Saeidi (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)
• Abdolreza Hashemzaei (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)
• Nahid Tajeddin (Isfahan)
• Mohammad-Bagher Sa'adat (Dashtestan)
• Masoud Rezaei (Shiraz)
• Vali Maleki (Meshginshahr)

Local

• Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani (Chairman of Tehran City Council)
• Shakur Akbarnejad (Chairman of Tabriz City Council)

References

1. Transliterated Hezb-e Kargozaran-e Sazandegi-e Iran. The party's name has been alternately translated "Servants of Construction Party".[7]

1. "Mohsen Hashmei's New Position in Executives of Construction Party" (in Persian). Khabaronline. May 18, 2014. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
2. "Hossein Marashi: Iran Jails Reformist Ex-Vice President". Huffington Post. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
3. "The Executives of the Construction of Iran (ACI)" (PDF), Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University
4. ""کرباسچی" دوباره دبیرکل کارگزاران شد؛ محسن هاشمی رئیس شورای مرکزی و مرعشی سخنگو". 25 April 2017.
5. Mohammad Ali Zandi. "Executives of Construction of Iran Party" (in Persian). Baqir al-Ulum Research Center. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
6. "List of Legally Registerred Parties in Iran". Khorasan Newspaper. Pars Times. July 30, 2000. p. 4. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
7. Antoine, Olivier; Sfeir, Roy (2007), "The Servants of Construction", The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism, Columbia University Press, pp. 164–165, ISBN 023114640X
8. "Iran: The Davom-e Khordad (2nd of Khordad; 23 May) Movement". Refworld. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
9. Pesaran, Evaleila (2011), Iran's Struggle for Economic Independence: Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era, Taylor & Francis, p. 147, ISBN 1136735577
10. Rezai, Mehran (2006), The Structure of Global Religious Market and its Role in Producing Religious Violence (With a Case Study of Iran) (PDF), CESNUR, p. 6
11. Buchta, Wilfried (2000), Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic, Washington DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, p. 14, ISBN 0-944029-39-6
12. Muhammad Sahimi (12 May 2009). "The Political Groups". Tehran Bureau. Retrieved 21 August 2015.