Green Party of Iran
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Green Party of Iran حزب سبزهای ایران | |
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| Leader | Kazem Moussavi[1] |
| Founded | 1999[2] |
| Headquarters | Germany |
| Ideology | Green politics Liberal democracy[3] |
| Website | |
| iran-e-sabz | |
The Green Party of Iran (GPI; Persian: حزب سبزهای ایران, romanized: Hezb-e Sabzhā-ye Irān) is a Green political party dissident to Iran's Islamic Republic government.[4]
The party is banned in Iran, and does not have a presence in the country. It has a radical stance towards Iranian Department of Environment and considers it a "façade of environmental concern for the benefit of international observers", arguing that it "covers up environmental disasters of the state".[2] It is an exception to the Iranian environmentalist movement, in which most of organizations and NGOs are tolerated, and sometimes encouraged by the government.[2]
The party was founded in California, U.S. as a "professional Iranian expatriate opposition"[5] and was reportedly based in Canada as of 1999.[6] As of 2014, it is based in Germany.[7] German-Iranian Dr. Kazem Moussavi is the spokesman and leader of the group.[8][9][10]
