Learned Council Explained

The Learned Council^[2] (fa|هیئت علمیه|Heyʿat-e Elmīyeh) was a political group of clerics in the 3rd Parliament, led by Hassan Modarres.^[1]

According to Touraj Daryaee, it did not consider itself a party and was a group of "hardline rightists particularly opposed to the Democrats". The group opposed the policy of centralization advocated by the government, secularization of penal code, property tax, conscription and women's suffrage.^{[3] [2]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Enayat, Hadi. 2013. Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906-1941. 978-1137282026. Springer. Chapter 3.
2. Book: Amin, Camron Michael. 2002. The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946. limited. 0813031265. University Press of Florida. 38–40.
3. Book: Daryaee, Touraj . Touraj Daryaee. 2012. Oxford Handbooks in History. The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. limited. 978-0199732159. Oxford University Press. 340–341.