The Learned Council (Persian: هیئت علمیه‎, translit. Heyʿat-e Elmīyeh‎) was a political group of clerics in the 3rd Parliament, led by Hassan Modarres. According to Touraj Daryaee, it did not consider itself a party and was a group of "hardline rightists partiularly opposed to the Democrats". The group opposed the policy of centralization advocated by the government, secularization of penal code, property tax, conscription and women's suffrage.