Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President ( fa, دفتر هماهنگی همکاری‌های مردم با رئیس‌جمهور) was a

political organization A political organization is any organization that involves itself in the political process, including political parties, non-governmental organizations, and special interest advocacy groups. Political organizations are those engaged in poli ...

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 Turkmeni ...

that was closely associated to then-

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Abolhassan Banisadr Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr ( fa, سید ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر; 22 March 1933 – 9 October 2021) was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident. He was the first president of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution abolis ...

. Since Banisadr was skeptical of partisan activities in Iran, he did not like the idea of creating a party. However, despite using the name "office", the organization "was created out of necessity to fulfill some, if not all, of the functions of 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 ...

". It had branches all over the country.

Parliamentary election and presence

OCPP issued an

electoral list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

for the 1980 Iranian legislative election, that had candidates shared with the Freedom Movement, the National Front and the People's Mujahedin. The exclusive candidates of OCPP included Fathollah Banisadr (his brother), Mohammad Moballeghi-Eslami (Banisadr's choice for Channel 2) and Mohammad Ja'fari (editor-in-chief of '' Enghelabe Eslami'').

Ahmad Salamatian Ahmad Salamatian ( fa, احمد سلامتیان; born 1941, Isfahan) is a former Iranian politician. He "played a prominent part in the revolution against the Shah", co-founding the Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights in 1977 ...

and

Ahmad Ghazanfarpour Ahmad Ghazanfarpour ( fa, احمد غضنفرپور) is an Iranian dentist and activist who served as a member of the parliament from 1980 to 1982. A former National Front activist, he ran for a seat under the banner of the Office for the Cooper ...

were notable members elected to the parliament under banner of the organization. According to

Houchang Chehabi Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi is a scholar of Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he is Professor of International Relations and History. Chehabi is Iranian-German and was born in Tehran ...

, the group formed a minority in the parliament. Siavush Randjbar-Daemi estimates that they were less than a dozen deputies, however initially some forty independents were also "ostensibly sympathetic to Banisadr".

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