Tehran Eight

Tehran Eight
Tehran Eight
Founded	1987 (developed since 1979)
Dissolved	1989
Merged into	Hezbe Wahdat
Headquarters	Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Ideology	Islamism; Anti-communism
Political position	Right-wing
Religion	Shi'a Islam
	Politics of Afghanistan; Political parties; Elections;

The Tehran Eight^[1] was an Afghan Shiite Mujahideen political union, mainly composed of ethnic Afghan Hazaras, during the Soviet–Afghan War. They were supported by Iran, hence the name Tehran Eight.

The Tehran Eight were predominantly active in the Hazarajat region in central Afghanistan, and fought against the PDPA government and the supporting Soviet troops. It formed the second largest resistance force in the war, after the main Afghan mujahideen (also called the "Peshawar Seven"), which was a Sunni alliance.

The Tehran Eight was formed in December 1987 with the direct participation of the Iranian state, after years of inter-factional struggle in the Hazarajat. In 1989, they were united into one party, Hezb-e Wahdat, with the exception of Hezbollah Afghanistan.

The Eight Factions

The following Afghan organizations composed the Tehran Eight, all headquartered in Iran:^[2]

		Year Founded	Leaders
Hezbollah Afghanistan	HA	1980	Qari Ahmad Ali Ghordarwazi
Islamic Victory Organization of Afghanistan	Al-Nasr	1980	Muhammad Hussein Sadiqi Abdul Ali Mazari Shaykh Shafak.
Afghan Revolutionary Guard Corps [ar; ru]	IRGAC	1982	Sheikh Akbari Mohsen Rezai
Islamic Movement of Afghanistan	IDA	1978	Muhammad Asif Muhsini Shaykh Sadeq Hashemi
Revolutionary Council of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan	Shura	1979	Sayeed Ali Beheshti Sayeed Djagran
Islamic Revolution Movement [ar; ru]	DRI	1980	Nasrullah Mansur
Union of Islamic Fighters for Islam in Afghanistan [ar; ru]	OBI	1980	Mosbah Sade
Thunder Party			Shaykh Sayeed Abdul Jaffar Nadiri Muhammad Hazai Sayeed Ismail Balkhee

References

^ Ruttig, T. Islamists, Leftists – and a Void in the Center. Afghanistan's Political Parties and where they come from (1902–2006). "The first current was mainly represented in the 1980s by the Sunni Mujahedin tanzim based in Pakistan, the ‘Peshawar Seven’, and the Shia Mujahedin groups based in Iran, the ‘Tehran Eight’. The second current mainly consisted of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), with its two major factions Khalq and Parcham, and the ‘Maoist’ groups that emerged from the demokratik-e newin, or ‘new democracy’, commonly referred to as shola’i. For the third current, there are mainly Afghan Millat with at least three different factions on the Pashtun(ist) side and Settam-e Melli on the Tajik side, with some Uzbek and Turkmen elements, and currently Sazman-e Inqilabi-ye Zahmatkashan-e Afghanistan (SAZA), or ‘Revolutionary Organisation of Afghanistan’s Toilers’ and the new Hezb-e Kangara-ye Melli, or ‘National Congress Party’. There is no current Hazara equivalent to them since Hezb-e Wahdat has absorbed the Hazara demand for religious, political and judicial equality." [1]
^ "DOSSIERS OF POLITICAL PARTIES INTENT ON EXPORTING AN ISLAMIC REVOLUTION". Wilson Center. 1999. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

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[ruttig-1] Ruttig, T. Islamists, Leftists – and a Void in the Center. Afghanistan's Political Parties and where they come from (1902–2006). "The first current was mainly represented in the 1980s by the Sunni Mujahedin tanzim based in Pakistan, the ‘Peshawar Seven’, and the Shia Mujahedin groups based in Iran, the ‘Tehran Eight’. The second current mainly consisted of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), with its two major factions Khalq and Parcham, and the ‘Maoist’ groups that emerged from the demokratik-e newin, or ‘new democracy’, commonly referred to as shola’i. For the third current, there are mainly Afghan Millat with at least three different factions on the Pashtun(ist) side and Settam-e Melli on the Tajik side, with some Uzbek and Turkmen elements, and currently Sazman-e Inqilabi-ye Zahmatkashan-e Afghanistan (SAZA), or ‘Revolutionary Organisation of Afghanistan’s Toilers’ and the new Hezb-e Kangara-ye Melli, or ‘National Congress Party’. There is no current Hazara equivalent to them since Hezb-e Wahdat has absorbed the Hazara demand for religious, political and judicial equality." [1]

[2] "DOSSIERS OF POLITICAL PARTIES INTENT ON EXPORTING AN ISLAMIC REVOLUTION". Wilson Center. 1999. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

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The Eight Factions

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