Hizb-i Paykār

For Peykar, the Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group active in 1970s–1980s, see Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class.

Hizb-i Paykār (Persian: حزب پیکار, lit. 'Battle Party') was a small nationalist organization in Iran during 1940s. The party denounced the reign of Reza Shah and it condemned the presence of the Allies on Iranian soil.^[3]

Peykar Party
Founder	Khosrow Eghbal[1]
Merged into	Motherland Party[2]
Newspaper	Iran-e Ma[3] Nabard[3] Mard-i Imruz
Ideology	Iranian nationalism
Political position	Centrism[4]
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According to L. P. Elwell-Sutton, the party was composed of intellectuals, and at some time was sympathized by figures such as Hossein Ala and Isa Sedigh.^[5]

One of its organs "showed inclinations in favor of Nazi Germany",^[3] while the party "tended towards France, and against the soviet Union".^[4] In 1943 a weekly newspaper entitled Mard-i Imruz which had been launched by Mohammad Masud in 1942 became the official media outlet of the party.^[6]