Habibollah Peyman (; born 1935) is an Iranian politician. He is the founder and the leader of an Islamist Socialist political party, named ''Jonbesh Moslamanan Mobarez'', which is banned by the religious

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. He is also one of the leaders of the influential Iranian opposition political alliance, the Nationalist-Religious Forces. This is a group of politicians, academic thinkers (such as Ezzatollah Sahabi, Yousefi Eshkevari and

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) and some parties, who are known to believe in Islamic studies and nationalist interests at the same time. Although he fought against the pre-revolution government of the

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, Peyman has spent some years in prison for spreading his political ideas, and especially because of his involvement in the nationalist-religious movement, in the

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era too. He has couple of published articles and books, on political issues, theoretical debates over human's freedom in

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and

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and Islamic ideology. He and his party might be considered as the left-wing of the nationalist-religious movement in Iran.

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* 1935 births Iranian religious-nationalists Living people Politicians from Shiraz Iranian revolutionaries People of the Iranian Revolution JAMA (political party) politicians Movement of Militant Muslims politicians Council of the Islamic Revolution members National Front (Iran) student activists Iran Party politicians Iranian political party founders Party of the Iranian People politicians Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists politicians Members of the Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights Members of the National Council for Peace Muslim socialists Political prisoners in Iran {{Iran-politician-stub