Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation
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Toilers Party
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| Leader | Mozzafar Baghai |
| Founder | Mozzafar Baghai and Khalil Maleki |
| Founded | 16 May 1951 |
| Dissolved | 1981 |
| Merger of | Third Force and Organization for the Protection of Freedom |
| Newspaper |
Shahed ʿAttar |
| Membership | ~ 5,000 (1951) ~ 100 (1967) |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | National Front (1951–1952) |
Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation (Persian: حزب زحمتکشان ملت ایران, translit. Ḥezb-e Zaḥmatkašān-e Mellat-e Īrān; Zaḥmatkašān means proletariat) was a social-democratic political party in Iran.
Initially a member of the National Front, they pledged support for the nationalization of the Iran oil industry and opposed Tudeh Party.
They successfully attracted a considerable amount of educated youth (especially in the University of Tehran), Third Force activists and shopkeepers from Kerman in bazzar. Yet the party also included a nucleus of čāqukeš and čumāqdār.
In the 1952 legislative election, the party won two seats by Baghai and Zohouri.
The party split in 1952 over its relationship with Government of Mosaddegh. Under leadership of Mozzafar Baghai, Toilers left National Front and openly opposed the government while Khalil Maleki reestablished Third Force under the name of Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation — Third Force and continued to support the government.
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