It was the most important party formed by the old Qajar nobility,[4] and an association of aristocrats and anti-British radical intellectuals.
[9] It called for extensive economic, social, and administrative reforms while advocating a revision of the Iranian Armed Forces.
[7] It developed an authoritarianist structure[10] and some suspect it planned to create one-party state.
[7] According to Ervand Abrahamian, Qavam had two paradoxical reasons to establish the party, a "double-edged sword directed at the left as well as the right".
He intended to defeat royalist and pro-British candidates in the 1947 Iranian legislative election and to use it to "mobilize non-communist reformers, steal the thunder from the left, and hence build a counterbalance to the Tudeh Party".