League of Iranian Socialists

League of Socialists of the National Movement of Iran (Persian: جامعه سوسیالیست‌های نهضت ملی ایران‎, romanized: Jāmeʿa-ye sōsīalīsthā-ye nahżat-e mellī-e Īrān) or Society of Iranian Socialists (Persian: جامعه سوسیالیست‌های ایران‎, romanized: Jāmeʿa-ye sōsīalīsthā-ye Īrān) was a socialist nationalist party in Iran.

League of Iranian Socialists
LeaderReza Shayan[1]
SecretaryAmir Pishdad[2]
FounderKhalil Maleki[3]
Founded1960
Dissolved1980s
Merger ofThird Force[3]
IdeologySocialism
Social democracy
Iranian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Political positionLeft-wing[4]
National affiliation
International affiliationSocialist International

The party formally joined the Socialist International upon establishment.[4]

It was founded in 1960 by Third Force activists led by Khalil Maleki and a number of radical nationalists, most of whom had social democracy leanings and some members with Islamic socialism tendencies. Hossein Malek, Ahmad Sayyed Javadi and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad were among people associated with the group.[5]

The organization was a founding member of the National Front (II)[6] and was considered the "extereme left-wing" within the front.[4] It broke with the front and joined the National Democratic Front after the Iranian Revolution.[7] In the 1980 Iranian presidential election, the group supported People's Mujahedin of Iran nominee Massoud Rajavi.[8]

References
  1. Robert A. Kilmarx, Yonah Alexander (2013). Business and the Middle East: Threats and Prospects. Elsevier. p. 123. ISBN 9781483189758.
  2. Homa Katouzian (1999). Musaddiq and the struggle for power in Iran. I.B.Tauris. pp. 245, 250. ISBN 9781860642906.
  3. Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 228. ISBN 1850431981.
  4. "Socialist League", Iran Almanac and Book of Facts (5th ed.), Echo of Iran, 1966, p. 240
  5. Samih K. Farsoun, Mehrdad Mashayekhi (2005). Iran: Political Culture in the Islamic Republic. Routledge. p. 60. ISBN 9781134969470.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  6. Ervand Abrahamian (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 257–261. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  7. Sussan Siavoshi (1990), Liberal nationalism in Iran: the failure of a movement, Westview Press, p. 157, ISBN 9780813374130
  8. Ervand Abrahamian (1989), Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin, Society and culture in the modern Middle East, 3, I.B.Tauris, p. 198, ISBN 9781850430773
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