The Azerbaijan Democratic Party (; ) was a pro-Soviet, separatist, and
pan-Turkist
Pan-Turkism () or Turkism () is a political movement that emerged during the 1880s among Turkic intellectuals who lived in the Russian region of Kazan (Tatarstan), South Caucasus (modern-day Azerbaijan) and the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) ...
party founded by
Jafar Pishevari in
Tabriz
Tabriz (; ) is a city in the Central District (Tabriz County), Central District of Tabriz County, in the East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran. It serves as capital of the province, the county, and the distric ...
, Iran, in September 1945.
It depended on the
Soviet Union
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and was supported by it.
The ADP was founded as an opposition
party
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against the
Pahlavi dynasty
The Pahlavi dynasty () is an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian royal dynasty that was the Pahlavi Iran, last to rule Iran before the country's monarchy was abolished by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It was founded in 1925 by Reza Shah, Reza S ...
. The Soviet-supported
Tudeh Party
The Tudeh Party of Iran is an Iranian communist party. Formed in 1941, with Soleiman Mirza Eskandari as its head, it had considerable influence in its early years and played an important role during Mohammad Mosaddegh's campaign to nationalize ...
dissolved its Azerbaijan chapter and ordered its members to join the ADP. The ADP
ruled the Soviet-backed
Azerbaijan People's Government
The Azerbaijan People's Government (; ) was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state in northern Iran from November 1945 to December 1946. Like the unrecognized Republic of Mahabad, it was a puppet state of the Soviet Union. Established i ...
from 1945 until 1946 with Pishevari as premier.
See also
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Iran crisis of 1946
The Iran crisis of 1946, also known as the Azerbaijan crisis () in Iranian sources, was one of the first crises during the aftermath of World War II, sparked by the refusal of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union to relinquish occupied Iranian territory ...
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Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they w ...
References
Affiliated organizations of the Tudeh Party of Iran
Defunct communist parties in Iran
Ethnic political parties
Iran–Soviet Union relations
Formerly ruling communist parties
Political parties of minorities in Iran
1945 establishments in Iran
Political parties established in 1945
Pan-Turkist organizations
Separatism in Iran
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