Party in the View of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjan

From the 1820s onwards, parties emerged as a way to achieve democracy and played a role in governing countries. In Iran, following the constitution, parties began to operate. But to the circumstances, their role in governance was different. In this article, with the author-centered hermeneutic method as a step in the evolution of research on the position of parties in Iran, we study the attitude and role of Hashemi Rafsanjani as one of the active elements in the struggles before the revolution and from the foundations of the government after the revolution as a central question. After examination, we see that he believes in organizational and civic work as well as the party, and is one of the founders of the Society of Fighting Clergy and the Islamic Republic Party and the Construction Agents Party. He considered the possibility of partisanship to be subject to the political conditions and understanding of the society and encouraged the new party system in Iran.