Iranian opposition
The Iranian opposition consists of various political groups, movements and people who oppose the government of Iran and its system of theocratic clerical rule based on the doctrine of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (Persian: ولایت فقیه, romanized: Velayat-e Faqih). The opposition to Iran's theocratic government is ideologically diverse and includes republicans, monarchists, secularists, nationalists, liberals, and communists.