League of Iranian Socialists

Political party in Iran

National Front (1960–1979)
National Democratic Front (1979–1981)

International affiliationSocialist International

Politics of Iran
Political parties
Elections

League of Socialists of the National Movement of Iran (Persian: جامعه سوسیالیست‌های نهضت ملی ایران, romanized: Jāmeʿa-ye sōsīalīsthā-ye nahżat-e mellī-e Īrān) or Society of Iranian Socialists (Persian: جامعه سوسیالیست‌های ایران, romanized: Jāmeʿa-ye sōsīalīsthā-ye Īrān) was a socialist nationalist party in Iran.

The party formally joined the Socialist International upon establishment.^[4]

It was founded in 1960 by Third Force activists led by Khalil Maleki and a number of radical nationalists, most of whom had social democracy leanings and some members with Islamic socialism tendencies. Hossein Malek, Ahmad Sayyed Javadi and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad were among people associated with the group.^[5]

The organization was a founding member of the National Front (II)^[6] and was considered the "extereme left-wing" within the front.^[4] It broke with the front and joined the National Democratic Front after the Iranian Revolution.^[7] In the 1980 Iranian presidential election, the group supported People's Mujahedin of Iran nominee Massoud Rajavi.^[8]

References

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^ ^a ^b Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 228. ISBN 1-85043-198-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Socialist League", Iran Almanac and Book of Facts (5th ed.), Echo of Iran, 1966, p. 240
^ Samih K. Farsoun; Mehrdad Mashayekhi (2005). Iran: Political Culture in the Islamic Republic. Routledge. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-134-96947-0.
^ Ervand Abrahamian (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 257–261. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
^ Sussan Siavoshi (1990), Liberal nationalism in Iran: the failure of a movement, Westview Press, p. 157, ISBN 978-0-8133-7413-0
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