Democrat Party of Iran
Democrat Party of Iran | |
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Leader | Ahmad Qavam |
General Secretary | Ahmad Aramesh[1] |
Youth wing chairman | Hassan Arsanjani |
Founded | June 29, 1946 (1946-06-29)[2] |
Dissolved | 1948 |
Workers wing | Central Syndicate of Iranian Craftsmen, Farmers, and Workers[3] |
Ideology | Nationalism Reformism |
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Iranian Democrat Party or Democrat Party of Iran (DPI; Persian: حزب دموکرات ایران, romanized: Ḥezb-e Demowkrāt-e Irān) was a short-lived political party in Iran, founded in 1946 and led by Ahmad Qavam. It was the most important party formed by the old Qajar nobility,[4] and an association of aristocrats and anti-British radical intellectuals.[5] With the fall of Qavam, it disintegrated in 1948.[6]
The organization tried to give itself the appearance of being the heir of the old Democrat party[7] and was ironically named "Democrat Party of Iran" in contrast to the communist "Democrat Party of Azerbaijan".[8]
The party's ideology was to be nationalist and reformist,[2] but it was organizationally fragile as it was ideologically amorphous.[9] It called for extensive economic, social, and administrative reforms while advocating a revision of the Iranian Armed Forces.[7] It developed an authoritarianist structure[10] and some suspect it planned to create one-party state.[7]
According to Ervand Abrahamian, Qavam had two paradoxical reasons to establish the party, a "double-edged sword directed at the left as well as the right". He intended to defeat royalist and pro-British candidates in the 1947 Iranian legislative election and to use it to "mobilize non-communist reformers, steal the thunder from the left, and hence build a counterbalance to the Tudeh Party".[7]
References
- ^ Leonard Binder (1964), Iran, University of California Press, p. 206
- ^ a b Ladjevardi, Habib (1985). Labor unions and autocracy in Iran. Syracuse University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-8156-2343-4.
- ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 238. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
- ^ Bashiriyeh, Hossein. The State and Revolution in Iran (RLE Iran D). Taylor & Francis. p. 12. ISBN 9781136820892.
- ^ Gheissari, Ali (2010). Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century. University of Texas Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0292778917.
- ^ Gheissari, Ali (2010). Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century. University of Texas Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0292778917.
- ^ a b c d Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 231. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
- ^ Hasanli, Jamil (2013). At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet-American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941-1946. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 327. ISBN 9780742570900.
- ^ Azimi, Fakhreddin (1989). Iran: The Crisis of Democracy. St. Martin's Press. pp. 160, 167. ISBN 9781850430933.
- ^ Ansari, Ali (2014). Modern Iran. Routledge. p. 112. ISBN 9781317864981.
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