Moderation and Development Party ( fa, حزب اعتدال و توسعه, Hezb-e E'tedāl va Towse'eh) is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...

. It is a pragmatic-centrist political party which held its first congress in 2002.

Platform

The party is part of the faction called "modernist right", "moderate reformists" and "technocrats" that draws from upper-level bureaucrats, industrialists and managers. It deals with a platform on modernization and economic growth rather than social justice, along with the Executives of Construction Party and the Islamic Labour Party. The party has been allied with

Popular Coalition of Reforms In 2008 Iranian legislative election, they formed "''Popular Coalition of Reforms''", consisting of 14 groups. Mostafa Kavakebian and Fatemeh Karroubi were key figures of the alliance. Other than Democracy Party, Islamic Assembly of Women and som ...

and Pervasive Coalition of Reformists in parliamentary elections and has had good relations with both

Mohammad Khatami Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 t ...

’s reform program and

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islami ...

. In April 2017, the party joined the supreme policymaking council of reformists. Some sources branded them as part of the conservative camp in the 2000s or

reformist Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement. Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can ...

s under the leadership of

. In 2003, the party's spokesperson wrote in '' Hamshahri'' that the party regards itself among "true reformists", who are idealists considering "social realities" interpreted with the "principle of moderation". According to

Ali Afshari Ali Afshari ( fa, علی افشاری; born 1973 in Qazvin) is an Iranian activist. For ten years, Afshari campaigned for reform-minded leaders and change within the Islamic Republic, with posts including membership on the Central Council of O ...

, the party prioritizes economic expansion and follows

free market In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers. Such markets, as modeled, operate without the intervention of government or any o ...

policies, however a minority faction represented by members such as Nobakht, advocate institutionalized economy and maintain that the government should interfere to regulate markets to a limited extent. They support limited political and cultural transformations, and believe political activism should only be within the frameworks of

the constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these pri ...

. The party also embraces '' Velayat Faqih''.

Presidential candidates

Members

Current officeholders

;Cabinet *

Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...

, President of Iran * Mahmoud Vaezi, Chief of Staff *

Mohammad Bagher Nobakht Mohammad Bagher Nobakht Haghighi ( fa, محمد باقر نوبخت حقیقی; born 13 December 1950 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian politician and economist. He was Hassan Rouhani's advisor for Supervision and Strategic Affairs and also was the ...

, Vice President for Strategy * Masoud Soltanifar, Minister of Sports ;Parliament *

Bahram Parsaei Bahram Parsaei ( fa, بهرام پارسایی, born 1971) is an reformist politician who is currently a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Shiraz electoral district. He was elected as a parliament member in the 2016 election with ...

(

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 ...

) * Zahra Saei ( Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr) *

Ali Nobakht Ali Nobakht Haghighi ( fa, علی نوبخت حقیقی; born in 1948 in Rasht) is a renowned Iranian physician. He is the president of and a permanent member and former secretary of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a professor of medic ...

(

Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis ( fa, تهران، ری، شمیرانات، اسلامشهر و پردیس) is a constituency for the Parliament of Iran encompassing the metropolitan area of Tehran and some of its satellite citi ...

) * Ramezanali Sobhanifar ( Sabzevar, Joghatai and Joveyn) * Hadi Bahadori (

Urmia Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' and ''Urūmiyeh''.) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran and the capital of Urmia County. It is situated at an a ...

) * Sakineh Almasi ( Kangan, Jam, Dayyer and Asaluyeh) *

Rasoul Khezri Rasul may refer to: *Rasūl, an Islamic messenger or prophet *Rasul (Universal Sufism), an evening prayer *Rasul (given name) *Rasul (surname) *Rasul, Punjab, a Union Council of Mandi Bahauddin District in Pakistan *"Rasul", a song by Spyro Gyra fr ...

( Piranshahr and Sardasht) * Shadmehr Kazemzadeh ( Dehloran, Darreshahr and Abdanan)

References

{{Iranian political parties Centrism in Iran Reformist political groups in Iran Political parties established in 1999 1999 establishments in Iran Centrist parties in Iran