Deviant current
Current of Deviation جریان انحرافی | |
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| Leader | Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Preceded by | Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude |
| Public relations wing | Havadarn-e Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Electoral list | Monotheism and Justice Front (2012) Supporters of Justice Discourse of Islamic Revolution (2012) |
| Political party | YEKTA Front |
| Ideology | National conservatism Iranian nationalism Populism Shia Islamism |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
| National affiliation | Iranian principlists |
| Islamic Consultative Assembly | 14 / 290
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| Website | |
| Dolat-e Bahar (lit. 'Government of Spring') Rais Jomhur-e ma (lit. 'Our President') | |
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The "deviant current" or "current of deviation" (Persian: جریان انحرافی, romanized: Jarīān-e Enherāfī) is a term used by Iranian officials (e.g. high-ranking clerics, Revolutionary Guards commanders) and conservative rivals of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to describe Ahmadinejad's entourage, which functions like a faction or party. Ahmadinejad had some tendency toward Iranian nationalism that deviated from the clerics' theocratic rule, hence top clerics labeled the faction associated with him as "deviant current".
The term was coined in 2011, after an open conflict between Ahmadinejad and the Supreme leader Ali Khamenei.