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IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
The attached sections of Iran: A Country
Study and World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and
Parties provide information on the history of the National
Front from its 1949 foundation to 1980, including its role in the
1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran.
The other attached articles provide
information on the activities of the only active component of the
National Front inside Iran, the Iranian Nation Party (Iran Nation
Party), led by Dariush Foruhar.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
The Independent [London]. 16
August 1994. Safa Haeri. "Iranian Officers Warn Clergy over
Oppression." (NEXIS)
_____ .3 May 1994. "Tehran Critic Held."
(NEXIS)
_____. 12 February 1994. Safa Haeri.
"Opposition Predicts Revolution in Iran; Former Minister Says
Popular Uprising Will Sweep Islamic Leadership from Power to Save
Country from 'Catastrophe'." (NEXIS)
_____. 18 October 1993. Safa Haeri. "New
Purge of Iran's Armed Forces." (NEXIS)
Iran: A Country Study. 1989.
Edited by Helen Chapin Metz. Washington, DC: Department of the
Army. pp. 27-55, 210.
Mideast Mirror [London]. 6 April
1995. "Iran's Rulers Advised to 'Go Back to Their Mosques'
Following Price Riots Near Tehran." (NEXIS)
Reuters. 13 March 1995. BC Cycle. "Iran
Says Dissident General Freed for Three Days." (NEXIS)
_____. 28 November 1994. BC Cycle.
"Dissident Iranian Writers Dies in Detention." (NEXIS)
_____. 12 August 1994. BC Cycle. "Iran
Party Says Government 'Thugs' Attack Funeral." (NEXIS)
_____. 8 March 1994. BC Cycle. "Woman's
Suicide by Fire Not Political, Iran Paper." (NEXIS)
_____. 25 February 1994. BC Cycle.
"Iranian Woman Burned Herself to Death, Paper Says." (NEXIS)
_____ . 13 May 1993. BC Cycle. Mohammad
Zargham. "Rafsanjani to Face Three in Iranian Elections."
(NEXIS)
World Encyclopedia of Political
Systems and Parties. 1987. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Edited by George E.
Delury. New York: Facts On File Publications, pp. 527-528.