Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights

[3] At the initiative Abolfazl Zanjani and Fathollah Banisadr, and through personal contacts and friendship circles, the organization was founded in fall 1977 in the house of Karim Sanjabi.

[4] The headquarter was in a house next to Hosseiniyeh Ershad, first under cover of a legal firm owned by Ahmad Sayyed Javadi and Asadollah Mobasheri, and then officially as the ICDFHR office.

[5] Their first act was to send an open letter to Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, complaining about systematic violations of human rights in Iran.

[7] Houchang Chehabi describes the group as the main organization that represented "the intellectual, reformist, middle class" opposition to Pahlavi dynasty.

[7] The founders of the ICDFHR were opposition figures, resembling the National Front (II)'s central council of I960, which included secular and religious personalities.