Nation Party of Iran

{{Infobox political party

| country = Iran

| logo = HezbMellatIran.png

| colorcode = {{party color|Nation Party of Iran}}

| caption = Header of the party's official organ in 1952

| name = Party of the Iranian Nation

| secretary_general = Khosrow Seif{{cite book |last=Kazemzadeh |first=Masoud |editor1-first=Mehran |editor1-last=Kamrava |editor2-first=Manochehr |editor2-last = Dorraj |entry=Opposition groups |year=2008 |title = Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic |volume=2 |isbn=978-0-313-34161-8 |publisher=Greenwood Press |page = 364 }}

| founder = Dariush Forouhar

| foundation = {{start date and age|1951|10|24|df=y}}

| headquarters = Tehran, Iran

| split = Pan-Iranist Party

| ideology = {{plainlist|

Iranian nationalism
Pan-Iranism
Secularism{{cite encyclopedia|title =OIL AGREEMENTS IN IRAN

|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|date=July 20, 2004|publisher=Bibliotheca Persica Press|url =http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/oil-agreements-in-iran|last1= Mina|first1=Parviz|editor-last=Yarshater|editor-first=Ehsan|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|access-date=September 12, 2016}}

}}

| position = Right-wing to Far-right

| national = National Front {{small|(1951–1979)}}

| flag = 200px

| seats1_title = Parliament

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|290|hex= #00356B}}

}}

Party of the Iranian Nation (or Nation Party of Iran, Iran Nation Party; {{langx|fa|حزب ملت ایران|Ḥezb-e Mellat-e Irān}}) is "a small opposition"{{cite book|last=Forsythe|first=David P.|year=2009|title=Encyclopedia of Human Rights|volume=1|isbn=978-0195334029|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=198}} party in Iran advocating establishment of a secular democracy. Although the party is technically illegal, it still operates inside Iran.{{cite web |publisher=Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |title= Iran: Update to IRN28431.E of 23 December 1997on the Nation of Iran Party ("Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran", the National Front, the Iranian Nation Party, the Iranian National Party, Party of the People of Iran), and the deaths of Dariush (Daryush) and Paravaneh (Paravanah) Foruhar (Forouhar, Forohar) |date=1 February 2000 |id=IRN33708.E |url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad5320.html |access-date=29 October 2016 |website=Refworld |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029080520/http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad5320.html |archive-date= 29 October 2016}}

Founded in 1951 by Dariush Forouhar, the party had a few hundred members, mostly high-school students, and was a member of National Front until the Iranian Revolution; however, it did not carry much weight in the leadership of the front.{{cite book|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|author-link=Ervand Abrahamian|year=1982|title=Iran Between Two Revolutions|url=https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0|url-access=registration|isbn=0-691-10134-5|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/257 257–258]}} The party proposed rebuilding Iran by regaining its lost territories in Bahrain, Afghanistan and Caucasia, and its platform was based on anti-capitalism, anti-communism, anti-monarchism, anti-Semitism, anti-Bahá'ísm and anti-clericalism.

Popular among high school students in Tehran in the 1950s, the party's membership never exceeded a few hundred people.{{cite book |last=Gheissari|first=Ali |title=Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century |publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2010|page=69|isbn=978-0292778917}}