14th National Consultative Assembly
CountryImperial State of Iran
Meeting placeBaharestan
ElectionNovember 1943 and February 1944
Term start6 March 1944
Term end12 March 1946
Before13th
After15th
Chamber 1National Consultative Assembly
Membership 1137
SpeakerMohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei[1]: 269–271
1st Deputy
2nd Deputy
Session1 start2 April 1944
Session1 end5 October 1944[1]: 270
Session2 start6 October 1944
Session2 end1 April 1945[1]: 270
Session3 start2 April 1945
Session3 end4 October 1945[1]: 270
Session4 start5 October 1945
Session4 end12 March 1946[1]: 271

14th Iranian Majlis was commenced on 6 March 1944 and ended on 12 March 1946.[1]: 261

In a national history of factionalism, it was the assembly of intense factionalism. As many as seven rival groups labelled fraktions -a term borrowed from the German parliament- in constantly competing with each other, wasted one quarter of the session in obstructionism, and brought persistent instability on the governmental level: during these 24 months, there were seven changes of premiers, nine changes of cabinets, and 110 changes of ministers. The 14th Parliament sat during one of the rare periods in which there was some degree of freedom for political expression.[2]

Fraction members

FractionMembersLeader
National Unity (Ettehad Melli)33Mohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei
Individuals (Monfaredin)30Mohammad Mossadegh
Homeland (Mihan)24Hadi Taheri
Independent (Mostaghel)15Ali Dashti
Freedom (Azadi)11Mohammad Vali Farmanfarmaian
Democrat8Mehdi Farrokh
Tudeh6Fereydoun Keshavarz
Source: Majlis Research Center[1]: 278–279

References

  1. ^ آشنایی با تاریخ مجالس قانونگذاری در ایران دوره اول تا دوره شانزدهم [History of Legislatures in Iran (1285–1328)] (in Persian). Majlis Research Center. 2005. Archived from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  2. ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1978). "Factionalism in Iran: political groups in the 14th Parliament (1944–46)". Middle Eastern Studies. 14 (1): 23. doi:10.1080/00263207808700364