The Islamic Action Organisation (IAO; ) is a
Shia
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...
political party in
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
. It was founded by religious cleric,
grand Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi al-Modarresi in the 1960s, as the Message Movement (), and in 1979, was changed to the Islamic Action organisation.
Sources
Profile from MER
Islamic political parties in Iraq
Political parties established in 1961
Shia Islamic political parties
1961 establishments in Iraq
Islamic organizations established in 1961
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