The Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran (Persian: شورای فعالان ملی-مذهبی ایران, romanized: Showra-ye Fa'alan-e Melli Mazhabi) or The Coalition of National-Religious Forces of Iran (Persian: ائتلاف نيروهای ملی-مذهبی ایران, romanized: E'telaf-e Niruha-ye Melli-Mazhabi) is an Iranian political group, described as "nonviolent, religious semi-opposition"[2]: 79 with a following of mainly middle class, intellectual, representatives of technical professions, students and technocrats.
[2]: 81 The group shares the Freedom Movement of Iran's pro-democracy stance but favors welfare-state economics, instead of a free-market model, and holds a more critical view toward the West in their foreign policy.
[4] According to Human Rights Watch, it is a "loosely knit group of activists who favor political reform and who advocate the implementation of constitutional provisions to uphold the rule of law.
[5] It is also described as "a collection of liberals and social democrats with active Islamic feminists among its members".
[6] According to Taghi Rahmani, the group "believes that religion should serve civil society.