[1][2] With most members belonging to the younger generation, they maintain close ties to the university campuses in Tehran, as well as other major cities.
[3] According to Farhad Rezaei, despite senior members of the group have previously cooperated with Basij, leadership of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had not sided with them in the past.
[1] A senior candidate of the list supported the 2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran and was a leader of a demonstration against Hassan Rouhani for speaking on the phone with U.S. President Barack Obama in 2013.
[1] General reception of the list among mainstream conservatives was negative, who smeared them with terms such as "Justice Violators" and "neo-leftists".
[6] Moreover, two of their other prominent candidates were arrested[1] and the security apparatus controlled by the hardliners forced them to cancel a number of campaign events.