Iranian Democrat Party or Democrat Party of Iran (DPI; Persian: حزب دموکرات ایران‎, romanized: Ḥezb-e Demowkrāt-e Irān) was a short-lived political party in Iran, founded in 1946 and led by Ahmad Qavam. It was the most important party formed by the old Qajar nobility,[5] and an association of aristocrats and anti-British radical intellectuals.[6] With the fall of Qavam, it disintegrated in 1948.[7]