Union and Progress Party (Persia)

For Ottoman Empire organization, see Committee of Union and Progress. For Party in Guinea, see Unity and Progress Party.

Union and Progress Party^[2] or Unity and Progress Party^[1] (Persian: حزب اتفاق و ترقی, romanized: Ḥezb-e Ettefāq wa taraqqī) was a political party in constitutional period of Qajar Persia.^[2]

Union and Progress Party
Leader	Zayn-al-ʿĀbedīn Mostaʿān-al-Molk[1]
Founded	1908
Newspaper	Esteghlal-e Iran[1]
Ideology	Socialism
Politics of Iran Political parties Elections

In the 1909 Persian legislative election, they won 4 seats and allied with the Moderate Socialists Party against Democrat Party.^[3]

The party's line had little resemblance to that of similarly named the party active in the Ottoman Empire and contained some socialist demands. Most of the party's supporters were active in the countrysides.^[3]