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) |
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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 2 3 Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 257–258. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
- 1 2 Mina, Parviz (July 20, 2004). "OIL AGREEMENTS IN IRAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan. Encyclopædia Iranica. Bibliotheca Persica Press. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
- ↑ Forsythe, David P. (2009). Encyclopedia of Human Rights. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 198. ISBN 0195334027.
- 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]
