Moderate Socialists Party

"Moderates Party" redirects here. For other uses, see Moderate Party (disambiguation).

Moderate Socialists (Persian: اجتماعیون اعتدالیون, romanized: Ejtemāʿīyūn-e eʿtedālīyūn) or simply Moderates Party (Persian: 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.^[2] It was Iran's first right-wing political party.^[5]

Moderate Socialists Party
Leader	Disputed
Parliamentary leader	Mohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei
Founded	1909
Dissolved	1918
Succeeded by	Reformers' Party[1]
Newspaper	Waqt[2] Majles[2]
Ideology	Moderation[2] Gradualism[3] Conservatism[4] Constitutionalism[1]
Religion	Islam[2]
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Members

The party membership consisted largely of landowners, constitutionalist ulema^[2] and bazaaris. It espoused the traditional middle-class and landed aristocracy.^[1] Notable members and supporters were:^[2][1]

• Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai
• Sayyed Abdullah Behbahani
• Ali-Mohammad Dawlatabadi
• Mohammad Vali Khan Tonekaboni
• Abdol-Hossein Farmanfarma
• Abolqasem Naser al-Molk
• Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
• Mohammad Mossadegh

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.^[2][1]

Parliament election results

Election	Seats				Quota[6]
	Count[6]	±	%	±
1906	35 / 156	—	22.43	—	Majority party as Moderates
1909	74 / 126	39	58.73	36.3	Majority in coalition Including 38 in coalition
1914	29 / 115	45	25.21	33.52	Minority