Muslim People’s Republic Party

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Muslim People’s Republic Party

political party, Iran

Also known as: MPRP

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Iran
Political process
The Muslim People’s Republic Party, which once claimed more than three million members, and its leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariat-Madari, opposed many of Khomeini’s reforms and the ruling party’s tactics in the early period of the Islamic republic, but in 1981 it too was ordered to…
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The Muslim People’s Republic Party, which once claimed more than three million members, and its leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariat-Madari, opposed many of Khomeini’s reforms and the ruling party’s tactics in the early period of the Islamic republic, but in 1981 it too was ordered to…
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Mohammad Kazem Shariat-Madari
…Shariat-Madari was supported by the Muslim People’s Republican Party (MPRP)—a group especially strong in Shariat-Madari’s native Azerbaijan province—which frequently clashed with Khomeini’s Islamic Republican Party. In 1979 the MPRP staged a revolt in Tabrīz that Khomeini’s supporters savagely put down, and soon afterward Khomeini ordered the MPRP disbanded. Shariat-Madari’s political…
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…Shariat-Madari was supported by the Muslim People’s Republican Party (MPRP)—a group especially strong in Shariat-Madari’s native Azerbaijan province—which frequently clashed with Khomeini’s Islamic Republican Party. In 1979 the MPRP staged a revolt in Tabrīz that Khomeini’s supporters savagely put down, and soon afterward Khomeini ordered the MPRP disbanded. Shariat-Madari’s political…
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