Pan-Iranist Party

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The Pan-Iranist Party (Persian: حزب پان‌ایرانیست, romanized: Ḥezb-e Pān-Irānist) is an opposition party in Iran advocating for pan-Iranism. The party is not registered and is technically banned, yet continues to operate inside Iran. During the Pahlavi era, the party was represented in the Parliament and considered a semi-opposition, allowed to operate until officially denouncing Iran's assent to Bahraini independence in 1971. It is an occasional supporter of the National Front, a major nationalist party, and was itself nationalist with respect to its ideology. The Pan-Iranist Party was an anti-communist organization, and regularly battled supporters of the Tudeh Party of Iran in the streets of Tehran. In the context of the 1940s, it is described as a "secular ultranationalist party", whereas in that of the mid-1960s, it is described as a "secular nationalist" party. Nowadays, the party is defined by opposition to the pan-Islamism of the post-1979 Iranian government, as well as opposition...

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