 It is not an officially registered party or non-governmental organization.According to a "Chatham House" report, it is permitted by the Iranian government, however policies "make it very difficult" for them to "operate freely and their positions, which must by necessity be moderate and mostly passive, cannot compete with firmer Kurdish nationalist rhetoric from outside Iran".It was established in January 2006 by former MP Bahaedin Adab and belongs to the reformist tendency.