The Two Societies

The Two Societies جامعتین
Leader of SST	Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
Leader of CCA	Mostafa Pourmohammadi
Ideology	Political Islam Islamic Principlism Ja'fari jurisprudence Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists Khomeinism
Political position	Right wing
Religion	Shia Islam
National affiliation	Principlists
Assembly of Experts	69 / 86
Guardian Council jurisprudences	6 / 6
Tehran Interim Friday Prayer Imams	5 / 5
Politics of Iran Political parties Elections

The Two Societies (Persian: جامعتین, Jāme'atein)^[1] is the nickname given to the coalition of two influential^[2] Iranian principlist clerical religious–political groups, Combatant Clergy Association of Tehran and Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom.^[1]

The Two Societies declared a shared electoral list for 2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election and won 69 seats out of 86. In 2016 elections, the two societies did not reach a coalition and issued different lists, eventually winning 64≈66 seats out of 88.^[3]

They also dominate Guardian Council.^[2]

References

1. Enis Erdem Aydin, 'A Separation? The Principalist Divide and the Parliamentary Elections in Iran' Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Istanbul: Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, February 2012.
2. SHAUL, BAKHASH (12 September 2011). "Iran's Conservatives: The Headstrong New Bloc". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Tehran Bureau. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
3. "تاثیر حمایت جامعه مدرسین در رای آوری نامزدهای خبرگان/کدام اعضای کنونی نامزد جامعه مدرسین نبودند؟". Khabaronline (in Persian). 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.