Moderate Socialists Party
{{redirect|Moderates Party|other uses|Moderate Party (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox political party
| name = Moderate Socialists Party
| colorcode = #00517c
| leader = Disputed
| foundation = 1909
| dissolved = 1918
| leader1_title = Parliamentary leader
| leader1_name = Mohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei
| successor = Reformers' Party{{cite book|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|author-link=Ervand Abrahamian|year=1982|title=Iran Between Two Revolutions|isbn=0-691-10134-5|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/105 105–106, 120]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/105}}
| religion = Islam
| ideology = Moderation
Gradualism{{cite book|last=Katouzian
|first=Homa|author-link=Homa Katouzian|year=2006|title=State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis|series=Library of modern Middle East studies|volume=28|isbn=1845112725|publisher=I.B.Tauris|page=57}}
Conservatism{{cite book|last=Cronin|first=Stephanie|year=2013|title=Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left|series=Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series|isbn=978-1134328901|publisher=Routledge|page=71}}
Constitutionalism
| country = Iran
}}
Moderate Socialists ({{langx|fa|اجتماعیون اعتدالیون|Ejtemāʿīyūn-e eʿtedālīyūn}}) or simply Moderates Party ({{langx|fa|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 Party–Democrat Party.{{cite encyclopedia|title =CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION v. Political parties of the constitutional period|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|date=October 28, 2011|orig-year=December 15, 1992|publisher=Bibliotheca Persica Press|location=New York City|url =http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/constitutional-revolution-v|volume= VI|last1= Ettehadieh|first1=Mansoureh|author-link=Mansoureh Ettehadieh|editor-last=Yarshater|editor-first=Ehsan|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|access-date=September 12, 2016|series=Fasc. 2|pages=199–202}} It was Iran's first right-wing political party.{{cite book |last1=Matin-Asgari|first1=Afshin|authorlink1=:fa:افشین متین عسگری |title=Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History Of Iranian Modernity|date=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-108-42853-8|page=45}}
Members
The party membership consisted largely of landowners, constitutionalist ulema and bazaaris. It espoused the traditional middle-class and landed aristocracy. Notable members and supporters were:
Views
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, and prohibition of child labor.
It also expressed support for freedom of association and freedom of the press.
Parliament election results
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rowspan=2 | Election
! colspan=4 | Seats |
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Count{{cite book|url=http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/book_pub/download/837285|publisher=Majlis Research Center|year=2005|orig-year=1384|title=آشنایی با تاریخ مجالس قانونگذاری در ایران دوره اول تا دوره شانزدهم|language=Persian|trans-title=History of Legislatures in Iran (1285–1328)|pages=19–20, 46–47, 68}}
! ± ! % ! ± |
1906
| {{Composition bar|35|156|hex=#00517c}} | {{N/A}} | 22.43 | {{N/A}} | style="background:#cfc;"| Majority party |
1909
| {{Composition bar|74|126|hex=#00517c}} | {{increase}} 39 | 58.73 | {{increase}} 36.3 | style="background:#cfc;"| Majority in coalition |
1914
| {{Composition bar|29|115|hex=#00517c}} | {{decrease}} 45 | 25.21 | {{decrease}} 33.52 | style="background:#fcc;"| Minority |
References
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Category:Political parties established in 1909
Category:Political parties disestablished in 1918
Category:Political parties in Qajar Iran
Category:Conservative parties in Iran
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