Electoral lists in Tehran reveal the differences of internal movements. Reform Front and the reformist parties in Iran announced that they would not participate in a list of the 30 seats in the elections for the twelfth parliament in Tehran.

Analysts attribute the lack of competition between the main movements in the Iranian elections to the apathy in the country. For his part, political analyst Hammadi Mohammadi said, “There are many reformists who did not run in the first place"