Religious-Nationalists (original) (raw)

The Religious-Nationalists (plural form in Persian: ملّی‌مذهبی‌ها, romanized: Melli-Mazhabi ha, lit. 'The Nationalist-Religious Ones') or the National-Religious (Persian: ملّی‌مذهبی, romanized: Melli-Mazhabi as an adjective) are terms referring to a political faction in Iran that consists of individuals and groups embracing Iranian-Islamic nationalism, as an integral part of their manifesto. They self-identify as political followers of Mohammad Mosaddegh and their modernist religious outlook makes them advocates of coexistence of Islam and democracy, an idea distinguishable from those of ideologies such as Pan-Islamism or Islamism.