Social Democratic Party (Iran)

The Social Democratic Party (Persian: فرقه اجتماعیون عامیون, romanized: Ferqa'ye Ejtemāʿīyūn-e ʿāmmīyūn) was a political party formed by Persian emigrants in Transcaucasia with the help of local revolutionaries, maintaining close ties to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and Hemmat Party.^[1][2]

Social Democratic Party
Leader	Nariman Narimanov[1]
Founder	Haydar Khan Amo-oghli[2][3]
Founded	1904[2] or 1905[1]
Dissolved	February 1910[1]
Succeeded by	Democrat Party[2]
Headquarters	Baku, Caucasus[2]
Newspaper	Iran-e No[1]
Ideology	Socialism Liberalism Nationalism Secularism Constitutionalism
Political position	Left-wing
1st Iranian Majlis (1906)	21 / 156
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It was the first Iranian socialist organization.^[4]

The party created its own mélange of European socialism and indigenous ideas and upheld liberalism and nationalism. It maintained some religious beliefs^[1] while being critical of the conservative ulama^[1] and embracing separation of church and state.^[3]