The Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran (Persian: شورای فعالان ملی-مذهبی ایران, romanized: Showra-ye Fa'alan-e Melli Mazhabi) or The Coalition of National-Religious Forces of Iran (Persian: ائتلاف نيروهای ملی-مذهبی ایران, romanized: E'telaf-e Niruha-ye Melli-Mazhabi) is an Iranian political group, described as "nonviolent, religious semi-opposition"[2]: 79 with a following of mainly middle class, intellectual, representatives of technical professions, students and technocrats.[2]: 81
According to Taghi Rahmani, the group "believes that religion should serve civil society. It also believes that all Iranians have equal rights, and that they should be seen as equal citizens despite their different viewpoints."[7]
^ abcdAmir Arjomand, Said (2009), After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 99, ISBN978-0199745760
^ abcdefghijkBuchta, Wilfried (2000), Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic, Washington DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, ISBN0-944029-39-6
^Shahibzadeh, Yadullah (2016). Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History. Springer. p. 103. ISBN9781137578259.
^Mohammad Ali Kadivar (2013), "Alliances and Perception Profiles in the Iranian Reform Movement, 1997 to 2005", American Sociological Review, 78 (6), American Sociological Association: 1063–1086, doi:10.1177/0003122413508285, S2CID13189214
^Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Information on the Nehzate Melli Mazhabi, also known as the Melli Mazhabi group, the Nezehzat Melli Committee, or the National Religious Alliance (NRA), including treatment of its supporters and their friends and family members, 17 April 2003, IRN41272.E, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3f7d4db07.html [Retrieved 9 June 2017]
