Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude

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Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude
ائتلاف رايحه خوش خدمت
President Mehrdad Bazrpash
Spokesperson Mohammad-Ali Ramin
Founded 2006[1]
Dissolved 2011
Split from Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran[1]
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Headquarters Tehran, Iran
Ideology Populism
Fundamentalism
Political position Right-wing to Far-right
Religion Shia Islam
National affiliation Principlists[1]
International affiliation None
Alliance United Front of Principlists (2008)
Party flag
Flag of Iran.svg
Politics of Iran
Political parties
Elections

The Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude[5] or Sweet Scent of Servitude (Persian: ائتلاف رايحه خوش خدمت‎‎) was an Iranian principlist political group supporting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government.

2006 Local elections

The group was founded a few months before the Iranian local elections, 2006, and was able to win seats in several City and Village Councils of Iran. They had no candidates in Ilam, Sari, Kerman, Gorgan and Khorramabad. According to Fars News Agency, the results were as follows:[6][7]

City Seats won
Tehran
3 / 15 (20%)
Ardabil
2 / 9 (22%)
Urmia
1 / 9 (11%)
Isfahan
2 / 11 (18%)
Arak
2 / 9 (22%)
Bushehr
1 / 7 (14%)
Kermanshah
2 / 9 (22%)
Bandar Abbas
2 / 9 (22%)
Tabriz
2 / 11 (18%)
Bojnurd
2 / 7 (29%)
Birjand
3 / 9 (33%)
Hamedan
4 / 9 (44%)
Yasuj
1 / 7 (14%)
Yazd
2 / 9 (22%)
Rasht
1 / 9 (11%)
Mashhad
3 / 11 (27%)
Shiraz
2 / 11 (18%)
Zanjan
2 / 9 (22%)
Semnan
3 / 7 (43%)
Sanandaj
3 / 9 (33%)
Qom
3 / 9 (33%)
Qazvin
0 / 9 (0%)
Shahrekord
0 / 9 (0%)
Zahedan
0 / 9 (0%)

Parliament elections

2008

They competed in the Iranian legislative election, 2008 as part of United Front of Conservatives.[8] After the elections, their winning candidates formed a new fraction named "Islamic Revolution", claiming to have 90 members.[1]

2012

In 2010, some reports indicated a dispute inside the group,[1] and in the Iranian legislative election, 2012, some members formed Stability Front, claiming not to support the followers of Ahmadinejad.[5] Another newly formed group called Monotheism and Justice Front, was linked to Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[9]

References

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