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Iran Unity Party

political party in Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ30592993 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Iran Unity Party (Persian: حزب وحدت ایران, romanized: Ḥezb-e Waḥdat-e Irān) was a socialist political party in Iran. It split the Iran Party following its alliance with the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in 1946.

According to Leonard Binder, the party was in a coalition with the National Union Party and Socialist Party in the 14th parliament.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Iran Unity Party” as political party in Iran. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Iran, Unity and Party can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as political party in Iran. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30592993. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iran Unity Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.