Iran Novin Party

Iran Novin Party
Iran Novin Party
Founder	Hassan Ali Mansour
Founded	15 December 1963
Dissolved	2 March 1975
Preceded by	Nationalists’ Party[1]
Merged into	Rastakhiz Party[2]
Worker wing	Worker House (1967–75)
Ideology	Royalism
	Politics of Iran; Political parties; Elections;

The Iran Novin Party (Persian: حزب ایران نوین‎, romanized: Ḥezb-i Īrān-i Nuvīn, lit. 'New Iran Party') was a royalist political party in Iran and the country's ruling party for more than a decade, controlling both cabinet and the parliament from 1964 to 1975. People's Party was regarded its opposition.[3]

The party was "indistinguishable from the state", i.e. party of power, with no coherent ideology or agenda.[4] It was the main reason to deny opportunities to seek a popular following through nationalist or socialist appeals, although its pragmatism and opportunism was advantageous in recruiting.[5]

It comprised technocrats and former civil servants; supported the Court (probably having been initiated by it), identifying with the policies of the Shah"[6] and self-proclaimed its role as "guardian" of the White Revolution (Pāsdār-e Enqelāb).[5]

Electoral history

Legislature

Election	Party leader	Parliament			Senate
Election	Party leader	Seats	+/−	Pos	Seats	+/−	Pos
1963	Hassan Ali Mansur	140 / 200		1st[7]	Unknown		1st
1967	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda	180 / 219	40	1st[7]	26 / 30	Unknown	1st
1971	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda	230 / 268	50	1st[7]	28 / 30	2	1st

Local councils

Election	Seats	Pos
1968	806 / 1,068	1st[8]
1970	838 / 943	1st[9]
1972	3,246 / 3,786	1st[10]

Leadership

Secretary-Generals
Name	Tenure	Ref
Hassan Ali Mansur	1963–1965
Ataollah Khosravani	1965–1969
Manouchehr Kalali	1969–1974
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda	1974–1975

References

Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-691-10134-7.
John H. Lorentz (2010). "Rastakhiz Party". The A to Z of Iran. The A to Z Guide Series. 209. Scarecrow Press. pp. 266–268. ISBN 978-1461731917.
Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 39. ISBN 978-1850431985.
Yom, Sean (2015). From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East. Columbia University Press. p. 138. ISBN 9780231540278.
Marvin G. Weinbaum (subscription required) (Autumn 1973). "Iran Finds a Party System: The Institutionalization of "Iran Novin"". Middle East Journal. Middle East Institute. 27 (4): 439–455. JSTOR 4325140.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs (1986). "Mad̲j̲lis". In W. Madelung; Rahman, Munibur; Landau, J. M.; Yapp, M.E.; Robinson, F.C.R. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. 5 (Second ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0606. ISBN 9789004161214.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. I. Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.
Dishon, Daniel (1973), Middle East Record, 4, John Wiley & Sons, p. 484, ISBN 9780470216118
Dishon, Daniel, ed. (1977), Middle East Record: 1969–1970, 5, Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, pp. 682–684, ISBN 9780470216118
Mehrdad, Hormoz (1980). Political orientations and the style of intergroup leadership interactions: the case of Iranian political parties (PDF) (PhD thesis). Ohio State University. p. 303. osu1487090992443849.

Ruling party of Iran
Preceded by Nationalists’ Party	Iran Novin Party 1963–1975	Succeeded by Resurgence Party

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[1] Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-691-10134-7.

[2] John H. Lorentz (2010). "Rastakhiz Party". The A to Z of Iran. The A to Z Guide Series. 209. Scarecrow Press. pp. 266–268. ISBN 978-1461731917.

[3] Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 39. ISBN 978-1850431985.

[4] Yom, Sean (2015). From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East. Columbia University Press. p. 138. ISBN 9780231540278.

[MEJ-5] Marvin G. Weinbaum (subscription required) (Autumn 1973). "Iran Finds a Party System: The Institutionalization of "Iran Novin"". Middle East Journal. Middle East Institute. 27 (4): 439–455. JSTOR 4325140.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[6] P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs (1986). "Mad̲j̲lis". In W. Madelung; Rahman, Munibur; Landau, J. M.; Yapp, M.E.; Robinson, F.C.R. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. 5 (Second ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0606. ISBN 9789004161214.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[DN-7] Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. I. Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.

[8] Dishon, Daniel (1973), Middle East Record, 4, John Wiley & Sons, p. 484, ISBN 9780470216118

[9] Dishon, Daniel, ed. (1977), Middle East Record: 1969–1970, 5, Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, pp. 682–684, ISBN 9780470216118

[10] Mehrdad, Hormoz (1980). Political orientations and the style of intergroup leadership interactions: the case of Iranian political parties (PDF) (PhD thesis). Ohio State University. p. 303. osu1487090992443849.