Nationalists' Party

{{Short description|1957–1963 political party in Pahlavi-era Iran}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Nationalists' Party

| native_name = حزب ملیون

| native_name_lang = fa

| general_secretary = Nosratollah Kasemi{{cite encyclopedia|title=KĀSEMI, NOṢRAT-ALLĀH|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|date=April 24, 2012|orig-year=December 15, 2011|publisher=Bibliotheca Persica Press|location=New York City|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kasemi-nosrat|volume=XV|last1=Alamouti|first1=Mostafa|last2=EIr.|editor-last=Yarshater|editor-first=Ehsan|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|access-date=September 15, 2016|pages=661–663|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001184222/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kasemi-nosrat|archivedate=October 1, 2016|url-status=live}}

| leader = Manouchehr Eghbal

| founder = Manouchehr Eghbal

| foundation = 1957

| dissolved = 15 December 1963

| successor = New Iran Party{{rp|59}}

| ideology = Royalism
National conservatism

| position = Right-wing

| colorcode = {{party color|Nationalists' Party}}

| country = Iran

}}

The Party of Nationalists or Nationalists' Party ({{langx|fa|حزب ملیون|Ḥezb-e Melliun}}) was a conservative{{cite book|first=Richard W.|last=Cottam|title=Nationalism in Iran: Updated Through 1978|year=1979|page=297|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre|isbn=0822974207}} political party in Pahlavi era Iran, and government majority party from 1957 to 1960. The party was founded in 1957 by Manouchehr Eghbal on orders directed by Shah to initiate a two-party system. Its opposition was the liberal People's Party.{{cite book|first=Ali|last=Ansaru|title=Modern Iran|year=2014|page=189|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1317864981}}

The party's name was deliberately chosen in a way to confuse the public, because the term Melliun ({{literal translation|Nationalists}}) was already in use to refer to members of the opposition National Front and other followers of Mohammad Mossadegh.{{cite thesis|last=Mehrdad|first=Hormoz|date=1980|title=Political orientations and the style of intergroup leadership interactions: the case of Iranian political parties|degree=PhD|publisher=Ohio State University|url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/caae/3e217e22da4e0f7114bdf5c27dc92c1e4895.pdf|id=osu1487090992443849|page=312|s2cid=148645507 |accessdate=2020-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220161611/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/caae/3e217e22da4e0f7114bdf5c27dc92c1e4895.pdf|archivedate=2019-12-20|url-status=dead}}