Reformers' Party

{{Short description|Political party in Qajar Iran}}{{Infobox political party

| name = Reformers' Party

| leader = Hassan Modarres

| foundation =

| dissolved = 1926 (banned)

| newspaper =

| predecessor = Moderate Socialists Party

| religion = Islam

| ideology = {{plainlist|

  • Conservatism{{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/120 120–123, 138]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0/page/120}}
  • Political decentralization{{cite book|last=Cronin

|first=Stephanie |year=2012|title=The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921-1941|isbn=978-1136026942|publisher=Routledge|pages=67–71}}

}}

| country = Iran

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Reformers' Party of Reformists Party{{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|date=31 August 2012|publisher=EWI Press|entry=Party|isbn=9781908433022|pages=5–6}} ({{langx|fa|حزب اصلاح‌طلبان|Ḥezb-e Eṣlāḥṭalabān}}) was a political party in Iran, established in the final years of Qajar Iran. It was one of the four major parliamentary parties in early 1920s, along with the Communist Party, Socialist Party and Revival Party.

The party is an heir to the Moderate Socialists Party, and was founded by its former members joined by some Democrat Party affiliates.{{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}}

The party held the majority in the 4th Parliament.{{cite book|last=Paidar|first=Parvin|year=1997|title=Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran|isbn=052159572X|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=90}} It was also very influential outside the parliament. The party's opposition to Reza Khan, lead to losing its majority status in the 5th Parliament after he rigged the elections to have a parliament pliant to his views.

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