Nation Party of Iran explained

Country:Iran
Party of the Iranian Nation
Secretary General:Khosrow Seif[1]
Founder:Dariush Forouhar
Headquarters:Tehran, Iran
Split:Pan-Iranist Party
Ideology:
Position:Right-wing to Far-right
Seats1 Title:Parliament

Party of the Iranian Nation (or Nation Party of Iran, Iran Nation Party; Persian: حزب ملت ایران|Ḥezb-e Mellat-e Irān) is "a small opposition"[3] party in Iran advocating establishment of a secular democracy. Although the party is technically illegal, it still operates inside Iran.[4]

Founded in 1951 by Dariush Forouhar, the party had a few hundred members, mostly high-school students, and was a member of National Front until the Iranian Revolution; however, it did not carry much weight in the leadership of the front.[5] The party proposed rebuilding Iran by regaining its lost territories in Bahrain, Afghanistan and Caucasia, and its platform was based on anti-capitalism, anti-communism, anti-monarchism, anti-Semitism, anti-Bahá'ísm and anti-clericalism.[5]

Popular among high school students in Tehran in the 1950s, the party's membership never exceeded a few hundred people.[6]

Electoral history

YearElectionSeatsRef
1979
1980Parliament

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Kazemzadeh, Masoud . Mehran . Kamrava . Manochehr . Dorraj . Opposition groups . 2008 . Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic . 2 . 978-0-313-34161-8 . Greenwood Press . 364 .
  2. Encyclopedia: OIL AGREEMENTS IN IRAN. Encyclopædia Iranica. July 20, 2004. Bibliotheca Persica Press. Mina. Parviz. Yarshater. Ehsan. Ehsan Yarshater. September 12, 2016.
  3. Book: Forsythe, David P.. 2009. Encyclopedia of Human Rights. 1. 978-0195334029. Oxford University Press. 198.
  4. Web site: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada . Iran: Update to IRN28431.E of 23 December 1997on the Nation of Iran Party ("Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran", the National Front, the Iranian Nation Party, the Iranian National Party, Party of the People of Iran), and the deaths of Dariush (Daryush) and Paravaneh (Paravanah) Foruhar (Forouhar, Forohar) . 1 February 2000 . IRN33708.E . 29 October 2016 . Refworld . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161029080520/http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad5320.html . 29 October 2016.
  5. Book: Abrahamian, Ervand. Ervand Abrahamian. 1982. Iran Between Two Revolutions. registration. 0-691-10134-5. Princeton University Press. 257–258.
  6. Book: Gheissari, Ali . Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century . University of Texas Press. 2010. 69. 978-0292778917.