The front is partly made up of former ministers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Taqi Yazdi is said to be the "spiritual leader" behind the group.
[10] The front declares that it stands against both "sedition" (2009 Iranian presidential election protests) and the "deviant current".
[11] The group's influence extends to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), where they've strategically positioned clerics and commanders who share their hardline ideologies.
Many of the recent generation's commanders have undergone extensive training at summer camps conducted by clerics from this group.
[11] In 2013, the front supported Saeed Jalili for president after Kamran Bagheri Lankarani's withdrawal,[citation needed] and it released electoral lists for local elections in several cities, with a landslide victory in Mashhad City Council.