Intellectual Trends Opposing the Power Discourse in the 1st Pahlavid’s Reign

During the 1st Pahlavid’s reign, the regime used the Modernist discourse to create or impose a new identity to different aspects of Iranian social life. However, some parts of the society would not tolerate the new identity and formed “Opposing Trends” against this new identification. “Opposing Intellectual Trend” was one of these. This article is to study and evaluate the resistance of the society of that time in the framework of “Opposing Intellectual Trends” against the imposed identity by “Power Discourse” through the methodology of descriptive analysis and content analysis. These trends had two main orientations: “Liberal Opposing Trends” and “Leftist Opposing Trends”. The attempts made by Mossadegh-ul-Saltaneh were among the “Liberal Opposing Trends” and the activities of Iranian Communist Party and Taqi Arani Group were from the “Leftist Opposing Trends” in this period.