Taqi Fadākār, the only one of the eight Tudeh members of the 14th parliamentary session who was not from the Soviet-backed north; Sayyed Hasham al-Din Dawlatabadi, son of a prominent religious leader, supported by the elders of the guilds and bazaar merchants (especially those who had acquired the part of the land confiscated from Batiki khans during Reza Shah’s rule) and the National Union party ; and Ḥaydar-Ali Amami, a wealthy merchant and industrialist, backed by Prince Akbar Mas’ud and the Fatherland party.