Leader Disputed Dissolved 1918 Newspaper WaqtMajles | Founded 1909 | |
Parliamentary leader Mohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei | ||
Moderate Socialists (Persian: اجتماعیون اعتدالیون, 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.
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Members
The party membership consisted largely of landowners, constitutionalist ulema and bazaaris. It espoused the traditional middle-class and landed aristocracy. Notable members and supporters were:
Views
The party claimed to uphold the principles of Islam, proposing military, judicial, and economic reforms, as well as strengthening the constitutional monarchy, convening the Senate, protecting family values, private property, limitation of the work week and wages in accordance with work performed, prohibition of child labor, It also expressed support for freedom of association and Freedom of the press.