Parliamentary leader Hassan Taqizadeh Founded 1909 Headquarters Tehran, Persia | Executive secretary Haydar Khan Amo-oghli Dissolved 1919 | |
Preceded by Social Democratic Party | ||
Democrat Party (Persian: فرقه دموکرات) was a social democrat political party in Qajari Persia, during the constitutional period. It was one of two major parliamentary parties at the time, alongside it's rival, the Moderate Socialists Party.
Initially an offshoot of the Transcaucasia-based Social Democratic Party, it severed direct ties with Baku and dropped "Socialist" from the name in deference to the conservative public. Its ideology, however, remained heavily borrowed from the old party. It was largely composed of middle-class intellectuals and stood for the separation of church and state.
In 1918, the party had split definitively to Pro-Reorganization Democrats (Persian: دموکراتهای تشکیلی, translit. Demokrāthā-ye taškīlī) led by Bahar; and Anti-Reorganization Democrats (Persian: دموکراتهای ضدتشکیلی, translit. Demokrāthā-ye żedd-e taškīlī).