Jihad of Construction

Jihad of Construction on a 200 rial banknote of 1982.

Jihad of Construction or Construction Jihad (Persian: جهاد سازندگی‎‎; Jahād-e Sāzandegī) was one of Organizations of the Iranian Revolution. The organization began as a movement of volunteers to help with the 1979 harvest, but soon took on a broader, more official role in the countryside. It was involved with road building, piped water, electrification, clinics, schools, and irrigation canals.^[1] It also provides "extension services, seeds, loans," etc. to small farmers^[2]

In 2001 it was merged with the Agriculture Ministry to form the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad.^[3] During the Iran-Iraq war, the organization held a Combat engineering responsibility.

References

1. Keddie, Modern Iran (2003), p.286
2. Bakhash, Reign of the Ayatollahs, (1984) p.202
3. The Minstry of Jihad-e Agriculture