Islamic Action Front (IAF)
ISLAMIC ACTION FRONT (IAF)
Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, transformed into a political party on 8 December 1992, as allowed by the Jordanian law of the preceding 6 July. In the Jordanian legislative elections of 1993, the IAF won thirteen seats in the House of Deputies, and on 8 November of the following year it obtained sixteen (out of a total of eighty seats). In the summer of 1997, a reformist current surfaced in the party, headed by Majid al-Nasser. In the following December, several members of this current were elected to the party's consultative council (shura). In the parliamentary election in June 2003, the IAF won twenty seats (out of a total of 104). The IAF, which is the principal Islamist entity in Jordan, was opposed to the Jordanian-Israeli peace accord and to normalization of relations between Jordan and Israel. It also opposed the Iraq War of 2003 and the subsequent occupation of Iraq by American and British forces. The IAF has a general secretariat, an executive committee of seventeen members, a consultative council of 120 members, and local sections. The Secretary General of the IAF in 2004 was Shaykh Hamza Mansur.
SEE ALSO Iraq War;Muslim Brotherhood.