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Nation Party of Iran

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Secretary-General
  
Khosrow Seif

Founded
  
1951

Headquarters
  
Tehran, Iran

Founder
  
Dariush Forouhar

Split from
  
Pan-Iranist Party

Ideology
  
Iranian nationalism Pan-Iranism Secularism

Party of the Iranian Nation or Nation Party of Iran (Persian: حزب ملت ایران‎, Ḥezb-e Mellat-e Irān‎) is "a small opposition" party in Iran advocating establishment of a secular democracy. Although the party is technically illegal, it is tolerated inside Iran.

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 Iranian Revolution, however it did not carry much weight in the leadership of the front. The party proposed rebuilding Iran by regaining its lost territories, e.g. Bahrain, Afghanistan and Cacausia and its platform was based on Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Communism, Anti-Monarchism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Bahá'ísm and Anti-Clericalism.

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Nation Party of Iran Wikipedia