Tehran Eight

The eight Shia factions

• Afghan Hezbollah – led by Karim Agmadi Yak Daste.
• Nasr Party – led by Muhammad Hussein Sadiqi, Abdul Ali Mazari and Shaykh Shafak.
• Corps of Islamic Revolution Guardians of Afghanistan – led by Sheikh Akbari, Mokhsem Rezai and Sapake Pasdar.
• The Islamic Movement of Afghanistan movement – led by Muhammad Asif Muhsini and Shaykh Sadeq Hashemi. IMOA, a member of the Tehran Eight, joined the Hezb-e Wahdat, which was intended as a united Shiite political front, but soon bolted out of it.
• Committee of Islamic Agreement, also known as Shura party – led by Sayeed Ali Beheshti and Sayeed Djagran.
• Islamic Revolution Movement – led by Nasrullah Mansur.
• Union of Islamic Fighters – led by Mosbah Sade, a Hazara leader of Bamian.
• Raad party – led by Shaykh Sayeed Abdul Jaffar Nadiri, Muhammad Hazai Sayeed Ismail Balkhee.