The party which was mainly active between 1979 and 1981 and a junior partner in the Cabinet of Bazargan, had been outlawed throughout much of its history due to dissenting the rule of both Pahlavi dynasty and the Islamic Republic.

[3] A de facto alliance was shaped in the wake of Iranian Revolution, in late fall 1979, between various clerical factions, the Freedom Movement of Iran, the National Front and JAMA.

[5] JAMA formed an electoral pact with four other Islamic groups to compete in the elections for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution, becoming part of the Quintuple Coalition.

[5] Ervand Abrahamian describes JAMA as "a small intellectual group using Koranic quotations to legitimize socialistic concepts".

[11] 'Neither East, nor West', the foreign policy slogan of the post-revolutionary government was advocated by Kazem Sami, who said "we will oppose any kind of hegemony and thus we will not accept imperialist interventions".