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The democratic parties also consisted of several groups, all of
which supported a republican form of government; some of them, such
as the National Democratic Front and the Kurdish Democratic Party
of Iran (KDP), also espoused varying forms of socialism. The
National Front, under the nominal leadership of Karim Sanjabi, and
the National Democratic Front of Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari were
both headquartered in Paris. Neither the National Front nor the
National Democratic Front has engaged in significant political
activity since 1982, although the latter party joined the
Mojahedin-dominated National Council of Resistance in that year and
was still a member in 1987. In contrast, the KDP, which advocated
political and cultural rights for the Kurdish ethnic minority
within a federally organized government, has been fighting against
the Islamic Republic since 1979. By the beginning of 1986, however,
KDP forces had been driven out of Iranian Kordestan, although they
continued to conduct sporadic hit-and-run operations against units
of the army and Pasdaran from bases in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan.
Data as of December 1987
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