Progress Party (Iran)

For other parties with the same name, see Progress Party.

Not to be confused with Union and Progress Party (Persia).

Progress Party or Party for Progress (Persian: حزب ترقی, romanized: Ḥezb-e taraqqi) was a fascist^[4] political party in Iran led by Abdolhossein Teymourtash, described as the "spurious" party of government and functioning as a "vehicle for executing royal intentions" of Reza Shah.^[2]

Progress Party
Leader	Abdolhossein Teymourtash
Founded	September 1927[1]
Dissolved	late 1932[2]
Preceded by	New Iran Party[3]
Ideology	Fascism Monarchism Secularism
Political position	Far-right
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Modeled after Mussolini's National Fascist Party and Atatürk's Republican People's Party,^[3] it subscribed ideas similar to the short-lived New Iran Party.^[2]

With the fall of Abdolhossein Teymourtash in late 1932, the party soon melted away^[2] and was outlawed on the grounds that it harbors republican sentiments.^[3]