Iran Party

Iran Party
حزب ایران
Secretary-GeneralBagher Ghadiri-Asl
FoundedOctober 1941; 83 years ago (1941-10)[1] as the Engineers’ Association
May 1944; 80 years ago (1944-05)[2]
Merger ofMotherland Party
HeadquartersTehran
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[3]
National affiliation
Slogan
  • Persian: برای ایران، بافکر ايرانی، بدست ايرانی
    "For Iran, With Iranian Thought, by Iranian Hands"[2]
  • Persian: کار، داد، آزادی "Work, Justice, Freedom"[2]
Party flag
Website
hezbeiran.com

The Iran Party (Persian: حزب ایران, romanizedḤezb-e Irān) is a socialist and nationalist party in Iran. Founded in 1941, it is described as the "backbone of the National Front", the leading umbrella organization of Iranian nationalists established in 1949.[4] The party's total membership has never exceeded the several hundred figure.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 188. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  2. ^ a b c Haddad Adel, Gholamali; Elmi, Mohammad Jafar; Taromi-Rad, Hassan (31 August 2012). "Iran Party". Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press. pp. 141–151. ISBN 9781908433022.
  3. ^ Foran, John Francis (1988). Social Structure and Social Chan. University of California, Berkeley. p. 627. Iran Party, a left-of-center noncommunist grouping of intellectuals, technocrats, professionals and students
  4. ^ Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). "Chronology of Iranian History Part 3". Encyclopædia Iranica. Bibliotheca Persica Press. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Khonsari, Mehrdad (1995). The National Movement of the Iranian Resistance 1979-1991: The role of a banned opposition movement in international politics (Ph.D. thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science. p. 80. Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  6. ^ ""Interview with Bakhtiar, Shapour: Tape 02. The Iranian Oral History Project is a unique resource for the study of modern Iranian history"".
  7. ^ ""Interview with Sanjabi, Karim: Tape 02. The Iranian Oral History Project is a unique resource for the study of modern Iranian history"".