page_title: Iraj Eskandari
section_title: Founding of the Tudeh Party
hierarchical_section_title: Iraj Eskandari / Return to Iran and career / Founding of the Tudeh Party
caption_attribution_description: English: Iraj Eskandari and Reza Radmanesh
context_page_description: Iraj Eskandari was an Iranian communist politician. A Qajar prince, Eskandari received French education. He was the first secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran and a member of parliament. In the summer of 1946 he was named a Minister of Commerce and Industry in Qavam's coalition cabinet.
  He belonged to the "group of fifty-three". Eskandari was identified at the time as the leader of the dominant, moderate faction in the party leadership, along with Reza Radmanesh.
context_section_description: After his prison sentence was cut short, Iraj Eskandari decided to co-found the Tudeh Party of Iran with the goal of attracting the new radical generation of young progressive nationalist-communists. in his diaries, he writes that "they [the founders of the Tudeh party] had on their mind to create a national movement of democratic, patriotic and progressive forces to dominate sectarianism".
  In the first congress of the Tudeh Party, his membership was consolidated and he became member of 3-person board of first secretaries of the Tudeh Party.
caption: Iraj Eskandari (left) with Reza Radmanesh (right), another founding member of the Tudeh Party
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