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Aria Party
حزب آریا
Leader Hasan Arfa
Military leaderHabibollah Deyhami
FounderHadi Sepehr [1]
Founded1946; 78 years ago (1946) [1]
Membership300 (1951 est.) [2]
Ideology Fascism [3]
Monarchism
Chauvinism [4]
Iranian nationalism [4]
Pan-Iranism [5]
Anti-Arabism [4]
Anti-communism [1]
Antisemitism [1]
Political position Far-right
Colours  Grey [6]

Aria Party ( Persian: حزب آریا, romanized: Ḥezb-e Āryā, lit. 'Aryan Party'; [1] also spelled Arya and Ariya) was a monarchist and nationalist political party in Iran known for its pro- British policy and staunch anti-Communist tendency. [2] It was alleged to have been financed by the Imperial State. [7]

Along with other small right-wing parties such as Pan-Iranist Party, it blamed all the social ills of Iranian society on the Muslim conquest of Persia. [4]

General Hasan Arfa was the leader of the party. [2] The party had an active military wing, an entourage of Imperial Iranian Army officers, led by Deyhami. However the real mastermind behind it was Hassan Akhavi, who organized events culminating in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. [2] Hossein Manouchehri, Aminzadeh, Yahyayi and Mahmoud Eram were among the distinguished members. [8]

Members of the party wore gray shirts and caps [6] and mimicked German Nazi appearance. [1] Overall, the party had National Socialist tendencies.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Abrahamian, Ervand (2013), The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations, The New Press, pp. 143–147, ISBN  978-1595588265
  2. ^ a b c d Rahnema, Ali (24 November 2014). Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks. Cambridge University Press. pp. 54, 299. ISBN  978-1107076068.
  3. ^ Haddad Adel, Gholamali; Elmi, Mohammad Jafar; Taromi-Rad, Hassan (31 August 2012). Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press. p. 11. ISBN  9781908433022.
  4. ^ a b c d Samih K. Farsoun; Mehrdad Mashayekhi (2005). Iran: Political Culture in the Islamic Republic. Routledge. pp. 58–59. ISBN  9781134969470.
  5. ^ Bashiriyeh, Hossein (27 April 2012). The State and Revolution in Iran (RLE Iran D). Taylor & Francis. p. 14. ISBN  9781136820892.
  6. ^ a b Middle Eastern Affairs, Council for Middle Eastern Affairs, 1954, p. 257
  7. ^ Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. p. 80. ISBN  0815630182.
  8. ^ Ali Akbar Dareini (1998). The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty: Memoirs of Former General Hussein Fardust. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. pp. 15–16. ISBN  8120816420.
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