The Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran is a

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and

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s, mostly underground or

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d, which campaigns for the replacement of the current Islamist government system in

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with a

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, democratic,

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. It has also called for antipersonnel landmines to be banned in Iran. Many of the member groups are concurrent advocates for the

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of non- Persian Iranians, including

Azeris Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. They are the second-most nume ...

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir ...

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, Turkmen, and Baloch. The organization grew out of a conference held in

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on 20 February 2005.

Member organizations

*Azerbaijan Cultural Society *Balochistan National Movement – Iran *Balochistan People's Party *Balochistan United Front of Iran *Organisation of Kurmanj People (The Kurds in the region of North of Khorasan) *

Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI; ku, حیزبی دێموکراتی کوردستانی ئێران, Hîzbî Dêmukratî Kurdistanî Êran, HDKA; fa, حزب دموکرات کردستان ایران, Ḥezb-e Demokrāt-e Kordest� ...

* Democratic Solidarity Party of al-Ahwaz *

Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan ( ku, , Komełey Şorrişgêrrî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistanî Êran, lit=Society of Revolutionary Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan), commonly shortened to Komalah ( ku, Komełe; fa, کومله), is a social-dem ...

*Organization for Defence of the Rights of Turkmen People *

Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement The Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) ( az, Güney Azərbaycan Milli Oyanış Hərəkatı) (GAMOH) is a Baku-based group that advocates self-determination for Azerbaijanis of Iran, and the "unification of Azerbaijanis living ...

*National Movement of Iranian Turkmenistan *Azerbaijan Diplomatic Mission *Party of United Lurestan and Bakhtiari *Southern Azerbaijan Diplomatic Commission *Turkmen National Democratic Movement *

Kurdistan Freedom Party Kurdistan Freedom Party ( ku, , Parti Azadi Kurdistan, abbreviated as PAK) is a Kurdish nationalist and separatist militant group of Kurds in Iran, based in northern Iraq. The group has declared creation of an independent Kurdish country as its m ...

References

External links

Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran (in Persian)
Federalism in Iran Federalist organizations Iranian democracy movements Organizations with year of establishment missing Political opposition organizations Political party alliances in Iran Secularism in Iran {{Iran-poli-stub