Jungle Party

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Jungle Party

| secretary = Ebrahim Rezazadeh Fakhraei{{cite encyclopedia|title =FAḴRĀʾĪ, EBRĀHĪM REŻĀZĀDA|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|publisher=Bibliotheca Persica Press|url =http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fakrai|first=Moḥammad-Taqī|last=Pūr Aḥmad Jaktājī|editor-last=Yarshater|editor-first=Ehsan|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|access-date=August 1, 2016}}

| newspaper =

| headquarters = Rasht, Gilan, Iran{{cite journal|jstor=4322041|title=Political Parties in Iran 1941-1948|journal=Middle East Journal|first= L. P.|last=Elwell-Sutton|publisher=Middle East Institute|date=January 1949|volume=3|number=1|pages=45–62}}

| foundation = Late 1941{{cite book|title=Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa|author=Frank Tachau|year=1994|isbn=9780313266492|page=158|publisher=Greenwood Press|entry=Jungle Party}}

| dissolved = 1947{{cite journal|url=http://www.sid.ir/en/VEWSSID/J_pdf/108020112008.pdf|title=The Political Parties in Iran between 1941-1947, with particular emphasis on the Left- wings Parties|journal=Geopolitics Quarterly|author=Najleh Khandagh|publisher=Iranian Association of Geopolitics|date=Winter 2010|volume=6|number=4|pages=154–166}}

| position = Left-wing

| national = United Front of Progressive Parties{{cite book|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|year=1982|title=Iran Between Two Revolutions|isbn=0-691-10134-5|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/301 301]|url=https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/301}}

| ideology = Socialism
Left-wing nationalism

| colorcode = darkred

| flag = 100px

| country = Iran

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The Jungle Party ({{langx|fa|حزب جنگل|Ḥezb-e Jangal}}; also translated Forest Party) was a secessionist{{cite journal|title=Rastakhiz: The Iranian Resurgence Party|volume=17|issue=3–4|year=1983|publisher=Aligarh Muslim University|journal=Indian Journal of Politics|page=83|quote=Non-parliamentary secessionist category contaiaed the Jungle Party of Gilan, the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, and the Kumaleh Party of Kuridstan}} party active in northern Iran during 1940s. The party was founded by armed rebels{{cite book|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|year=1982|title=Iran Between Two Revolutions|isbn=0-691-10134-5|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/221 221]|url=https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/221}} and some of Mirza Kuchik Khan's old associates who tried to revive the Persian Socialist Soviet Republic created in 1921 and used its red flag as a symbol.{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: D-K|entry=Gilakis|last=Minahan|first=James|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31617-3|page=666}}

It allied with the Iran Party, Tudeh Party of Iran, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and Azerbaijani Democratic Party in 1946.{{cite book|last1=Haddad Adel|first1=Gholamali|last2=Elmi|first2=Mohammad Jafar|last3=Taromi-Rad|first3=Hassan|title=Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam|publisher=EWI Press|entry=Iran Party|isbn=9781908433022|page=146}}

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