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Nation Party of Iran

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Party of the Iranian Nation
Header of the party's official organ in 1952
Secretary-General	Khosrow Seif^[1]
Founder	Dariush Forouhar
Founded	24 October 1951; 72 years ago (1951-10-24)
Split from	Pan-Iranist Party^[2]
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran
Ideology	Iranian nationalism Pan-Iranism Secularism^[3] Anti-capitalism Anti-communism Antisemitism Anti-monarchism Anti-Bahá'ísm
Political position	Right-wing^[3]toFar-right
National affiliation	National Front (1951–1979)
Parliament	0 / 290
Party flag

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Party of the Iranian Nation (orNation Party of Iran, Iran Nation Party; Persian: حزب ملت ایران, romanized: Ḥezb-e Mellat-e Irān) is "a small opposition"^[4] party in Iran advocating establishment of a secular democracy.^[5] Although the party is technically illegal, it still operates inside Iran.^[5]

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 the Iranian Revolution; however, it did not carry much weight in the leadership of the front.^[2] The party proposed rebuilding Iran by regaining its lost territories in Bahrain, Afghanistan and Caucasia, and its platform was based on anti-capitalism, anti-communism, anti-monarchism, anti-Semitism, anti-Bahá'ísm and anti-clericalism.^[2]

Popular among high school students in Tehran in the 1950s, the party's membership never exceeded a few hundred people.^[6]

Electoral history

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Year	Election	Seats	Ref
1979	Constitutional Assembly	0 / 73(0%)
1980	Parliament	0 / 290(0%)

References

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^ Kazemzadeh, Masoud (2008). "Opposition groups". In Kamrava, Mehran; Dorraj, Manochehr (eds.). Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. Vol. 2. Greenwood Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-0-313-34161-8.

^ ^a ^b ^c Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 257–258. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.

^ ^a ^b Mina, Parviz (July 20, 2004). "OIL AGREEMENTS IN IRAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Bibliotheca Persica Press. Retrieved September 12, 2016.

^ Forsythe, David P. (2009). Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0195334029.