Moderate Socialists Party

"Moderates Party" redirects here. For other uses, see Moderate Party (disambiguation).
Moderate Socialists Party
LeaderDisputed
Parliamentary leaderMohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei
Founded1909
Dissolved1918
Succeeded byReformers' Party[1]
NewspaperWaqt[2]
Majles[2]
IdeologyModeration[2]
Gradualism[3]
Conservatism[4]
Constitutionalism[1]
ReligionIslam[2]

Moderate Socialists (Persian: اجتماعیون اعتدالیون, romanized: Ejtemāʿīyūn-e eʿtedālīyūn) or simply Moderates Party (Persian: فرقه اعتدالیون), was a political party in Qajari Persia and one of the two major parties of the constitutional period alongside its parliamentary rival Social Democratic Party–Democrat Party.[2] It was Iran's first right-wing political party.[5]

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  2. ^ a b c d e Ettehadieh, Mansoureh (October 28, 2011) [December 15, 1992]. "CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION v. Political parties of the constitutional period". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 2. Vol. VI. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 199–202. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  3. ^ Katouzian, Homa (2006). State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis. Library of modern Middle East studies. Vol. 28. I.B.Tauris. p. 57. ISBN 1845112725.
  4. ^ Cronin, Stephanie (2013). Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left. Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series. Routledge. p. 71. ISBN 978-1134328901.
  5. ^ Matin-Asgari, Afshin [in Persian] (2018). Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History Of Iranian Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-108-42853-8.