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Moderates Party

Moderate Socialists Party
Leader Disputed
Parliamentary leader Mohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei
Founded 1909
Dissolved 1918
Succeeded by Reformers' Party
Newspaper Waqt
Majles
Ideology
Religion Islam

Moderate Socialists (Persian: اجتماعیون اعتدالیون‎, translit. 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 PartyDemocrat Party.

The party membership consisted largely of landowners, constitutionalist ulema and bazaaris. It espoused the traditional middle-class and . Notable members and supporters were:

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.



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