The Social Democratic Party ( fa, فرقه اجتماعیون عامیون, Ferqa'ye Ejtemāʿīyūn-e ʿāmmīyūn) was a

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formed by

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emigrants in

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with the help of local revolutionaries, maintaining close ties to the

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist pol ...

and Hemmat Party. It was the first Iranian socialist organization. The party created its own mélange of European socialism and indigenous ideas and upheld liberalism and nationalism. It maintained some religious beliefs while being critical of the conservative

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and embracing

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