Impact of Islamic Republic Party politics on the life of political parties

Party politics of states directly affects the lives of political parties. Countries can ban or allow them by legislating on them. These politics can also affect the effectiveness of political parties. However, in Iran, scholars and scientists of the political parties have often searched the causes of the ineffectiveness of political parties in cultural, social, and historical factors, and largely neglected the impact of state party politics on this ineffectiveness. Hence, this paper deals with this question: How the party politics of Islamic Republic of Iran affect the lives of political parties? This article seeks to analyze the dominant approach that exists in Iran's party politics. According to this article, the approach adopted in party politics of Islamic Republic of Iran to regulate the affairs of political parties, is an approach that not only not strengthens and not encourages them, but also always strives to limit and control them, and this hinders the formation and operation of real and effective parties.