After the ban of the party, majority of opposition forces fled to neighboring Afghanistan where they established the Movement for Islamic Revival in Tajikistan (MIRT), headed by Said Abdullo Nuri.

The party was deregistered by Tajikistan's interior ministry in 2015 and then banned a month later, after being designated as a terrorist organisation by the country's Supreme Court.

[9] In 2018, the IRPT, whose leaders were by then based largely out of Poland, became one of the founding organisations of National Alliance of Tajikistan, an opposition coalition of four Tajik political movements.

[10] In April 2014, the party denounced official harassment and alleged government attempts to undermine their credibility and electoral chances, as parliamentary elections were scheduled in 2015.

[11] In the runup to 1 March 2015 legislative elections, a wide-ranging government-induced campaign, to demonise the party and bar its candidates from entering the contest, was reported.