Nation Party of Iran

Nation Party
Secretary-General Khosrow Seif
Founder Dariush Forouhar
Founded 1951
Split from Pan-Iranist Party[1]
Headquarters Tehran, Iran
Ideology
Political position Right-wing[2]
National affiliation National Front (1951–1979)
Parliament
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Website
Official Site

Party of the Iranian Nation or Nation Party of Iran (Persian: حزب ملت ایران, translit. Ḥezb-e Mellat-e Irān) is "a small opposition"[3] party in Iran advocating establishment of a secular democracy.[4] Although the party is technically illegal, it is tolerated 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 Iranian Revolution, however it did not carry much weight in the leadership of the front.[1] The party proposed rebuilding Iran by regaining its lost terretories, e.g. Bahrain, Afghanistan and Cacausia and its platform was based on Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Communism, Anti-Monarchism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Bahá'ísm and Anti-Clericalism.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 257–258. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  2. 1 2 Mina, Parviz (July 20, 2004). "OIL AGREEMENTS IN IRAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan. Encyclopædia Iranica. Bibliotheca Persica Press. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  3. Forsythe, David P. (2009). Encyclopedia of Human Rights. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 198. ISBN 0195334027.
  4. 1 2 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, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad5320.html [accessed 29 October 2016]


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