1979 Iranian local elections

Iranian politics City and Village Councils elections Iran Flag of Iran (1964).svg no Popular 1979 10 y 1976 Iranian local elections 1976 1999 Iranian local elections 1999 In October 1979, Ministry of Interior held elections for local councils in 150 citiesKian Tajbakhsh Political Decentralization and the Creation of Local Government in Iran: Consolidation or Transformation of the Theocratic State? Social Research 2000 67 2 377–404 40971477 along with elections coordinated and overseen for councils in thousands of villages and nomadic communities.Lois Beck Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran: The Qashqa'i in an Era of Change Routledge 2014 9781317743873 107–108 It was a move to address the importance of the local councils raised by the revolutionaries and to replace the councils with those existing since the Pahlavi dynasty. Kian Tajbakhsh argues that the councils were put on hold on fears of separatist aspirations, mainly because of eruptions of armed conflict in the provinces amidst Iran–Iraq War. According to Wilfried Buchta, in Kurdish and Turkmen regions the councils were "dominated by secular left-wing groups, wielded considerable influence both at the municipal and at the village level".Buchta Wilfried Who Rules Iran?: the Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Washington DC 2000 0-944029-39-6 179 In Zahedan, the clerical and regionalist Muslim Union Party (hezb-e ettehad al-Moslemin) led by Abdulaziz Mullazadeh that advocated more representation of Baluch people in the central government, played an active role in the campaigns and fueled the tensions between Sunni and Shia communities despite boycotting the election. The majority of the seats were won by non-Baluch candidates and on 12 October 1979 ethnic unrest occurred in the city, before the result was annulled.Stéphane A. Dudoignon The Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran: From Tribal to Global Oxford University Press 2017 9780190911683 References 1979 Iran Category:Annulled elections Category:October 1979 in Asia