Islamic Action Front

…Abdullah sought to restrain the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and the country’s largest opposition group, and pushed electoral reforms that were intended to increase voting based on platform rather than personal or tribal interests.

The effect on the Brotherhood-associated Islamic Action Front, Jordan’s main opposition party, was not immediately clear. In 2026 the United States designated the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Lebanese branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. A press release from the U.S. Department of the Treasury accused those branches of promoting…

…Brotherhood—in the form of the Islamic Action Front (IAF)—gained more seats than the pro-government candidates, and the newly elected prime minister, Mudar Badran, promised to lift the martial law that had been in place since 1967—a promise not fully kept until July 1991.