Muslim People's Republic Party

Muslim People's Republic Party
حزب جمهوری خلق مسلمان ایران
LeaderMohammad Kazem Shariatmadari[1]
Founded25 February 1979[2]
BannedJanuary 1980[3]
Headquarters
Membership3,000,000 claimed[1]
IdeologyClericalism[2]
Islamic democracy[5]
Islamic liberalism[2]
Iranian nationalism[6]
Pluralism[3]
Collective leadership[7]
Social conservatism[8]
Political positionCentre[9]
ReligionIslam

The Muslim People's Republic Party (MPRP) or Islamic People's Republican Party (IPRP; Persian: حزب جمهوری خلق مسلمان ایران, romanized: Ḥezb-e jomhuri-e ḵalq-e mosalmān-e Irān) was a short-lived party associated with Shia Islamic cleric Shariatmadari. It was founded in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution as a "moderate, more liberal counterweight" to the theocratic, Islamist Islamic Republican Party (IRP) of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and disbanded in 1980.

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