The People's Democratic Front () was an Iranian rebel group, which advocated armed struggle against the regime of

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the last List of monarchs of Iran, Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown by the ...

. Prominent members of the group included Nader Shaygan-shamasbi, Marzieh Ahmadi-osku'i and Mostafa Shoa'ian. In June 1973 the organization merged into the

Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas The Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (OIPFG; ), simply known as Fadaiyan-e-Khalq () was an underground Marxist–Leninist guerrilla organization in Iran. The OIPFG was one of the most important and influential armed groups dur ...

.Behrooz, Maziar.
Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran
'. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. pp. 63-64 Ideological differences had existed between the People's Democratic Front and OIPFG. Shaygan and Shoa'ian opposed

Leninism Leninism (, ) is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the Dictatorship of the proletariat#Vladimir Lenin, dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary Vangu ...

, which they saw as a deviation from

Marxism Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, ...

. In 1974 Shoa'ian was expelled from OIPFG (by this time Shaygan was dead). After Shoa'ian's expulsion, other former People's Democratic Front cadres upheld the line of OIPFG.

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Left-wing militant groups in Iran Militant opposition to the Pahlavi dynasty Defunct political parties in Iran Political parties of the Iranian Revolution {{iran-party-stub