People's Party (Iran)

People's Party

حزب مردم
People's Party حزب مردم
Leader	Asadollah Alam
Founded	16 May 1957
Dissolved	2 March 1975
Merged into	Rastakhiz Party
Ideology	Royalism; Liberalism
Political position	Centre-right
	Politics of Iran; Political parties; Elections;

People's Party (Persian: حزب مردم, romanized: Ḥezb-e Mardom) was a liberal^[1] political party in Pahlavi era Iran. It was one of two major parties in the apparent attempt to decree a two-party system by Mohammad Reza Shah, apparently opposition to the ruling New Iran Party and previously Nationalists' Party. The party was dissolved in 1975, in order to be merged into the newly founded Rastakhiz Party, the only legal party in the Shah's attempted single-party system.^[2]

^ Cottam, Richard W. (1979). Nationalism in Iran: Updated Through 1978. University of Pittsburgh Pre. p. 297. ISBN 0822974207. Rumor in Tehran had it that Melliyun ("conservative") had been allotted two seats for each seat given Mardom ("liberal"), and as the returns began...
^ Chehabi, Houchang E. (1990) Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris