Since Banisadr was skeptical of partisan activities in Iran, he did not like the idea of creating a party.[1] However, despite using the name "office", the organization "was created out of necessity to fulfill some, if not all, of the functions of a political party".[2] It had branches all over the country.[4]
According to Houchang Chehabi, the group formed a minority in the parliament.[4] Siavush Randjbar-Daemi estimates that they were less than a dozen deputies, however initially some forty independents were also "ostensibly sympathetic to Banisadr".[1]
^ abcdeRandjbar-Daemi, Siavush (2017), The Quest for Authority in Iran: A History of The Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 23–25, ISBN9781786732675
^Brumberg, Daniel (2001). Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran. University of Chicago Press. p. 118. ISBN0226077586.
^ abcdeHouchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. pp. 283–286. ISBN1850431981.
^Bayram Sinkaya (2015). The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations. Iranian Studies. Vol. 25. 1317525647. p. 86. ISBN978-1317525646.