Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists (Persian: نهضت خداپرستان سوسیالیست, romanized: Nahzat Khoda Parastan-e Sosialist) was an Iranian political party.
The organization was founded in 1943, through the merger of two groupings, Nakhshab's circle of high school students at Dar al-Fanoun and Jalaleddin Ashtiyani's circle of about 25 students at the Faculty of Engineering at Tehran University.
There was a two-three months probatory period for prospective members, under which they had to prove their religious and moral commitments.
[4] At the time of the elections to the 15th Majlis, the movement first tested to involve itself in electoral politics.
The electoral work caused an internal rift inside the movement between Ashtiyani (who considered that the ideals of the movement were sacrificed for the sake of electoral politics) and Nakhshab (who favoured more political activism and developing the movement into a political party).