Azerbaijani Democratic Party

The Azerbaijan Democratic Party (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Demokrat Firqəsi; Persian: فرقه دموکرات آذربایجان‎, translit. Ferqa-ye demokrāt-e Āḏarbāyjān) was a communist party supported by the Soviet Union and founded by Jafar Pishevari in Tabriz, Iran, in September 1945. ADP was founded as an opposition party against the Pahlavi dynasty. Soviet-supported Tudeh party dissolved its Azerbaijan chapter and ordered its members to join ADP.^[1]. The ADP ruled the Soviet-backed Azerbaijan People's Government from 1945 until 1946 with Pishevari as premier.

Historic political organizations in Iran
Politics of Iran
Qajar monarchy	Social Democratic Party Socialist Revolutionary Party Democrat Party Moderate Socialists Party Union and Progress Party Progressives Party Unified Socialist Party Social Reformers Party Learned Council Revival Party Reformers' Party Socialist Party Communist Party Young Communist League Armenian Revolutionary Federation Social Democrat Hunchakian Party Revolutionary Republican Party
Pahlavi monarchy	New Iran Party Progress Party Justice Party Battle Party Motherland Party Jungle Party Azure Party National Union Party National Will Party Azerbaijani Democratic Party Democrat Party Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists United Front of Progressive Parties Iran Unity Party Comrades Party SUMKA Aria Party Society of Muslim Warriors Toilers Party Third Force League of Iranian Socialists Organization of Communist Revolutionaries Islamic Nations Party JAMA Union of Communist Militants Union of Iranian Communists Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas People's Democratic Front Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class Organization of Working-class Freedom Fighters Nationalists’ Party New Iran Party People's Party Iranians' Party Resurgence Party
Islamic Republic	Grand coalition Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President Eponym Group Muslim People's Republic Party National Democratic Front Radical Movement of Iran National Resistance Movement of Iran Azadegan Organization Islamic Republican Party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization Coalition of the Oppressed and Deprived Coalition of Imam's Line groups Association for Defence of Revolution Values Islamic Reconciliation Party
Active parties

References

↑ Iran in claws of the bear, The failed Soviet landgrab of 1946 , Farhad Tale, iUniverse books, 2007, ISBN 0-595-41345-5,p19

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