Union and Progress Party or Unity and Progress Party () was a

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in constitutional period of

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. In the 1909 Persian legislative election, they won 4 seats and allied with the

Moderate Socialists Party Moderate Socialists () or simply Moderates Party (), was a political party in Qajari Persia and one of the two major parties of the constitutional period alongside its parliamentary rival Social Democratic Party– Democrat Party. It was Iran's f ...

against Democrat Party. The party's line had little resemblance to that of similarly named the party active in the

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and contained some socialist demands. Most of the party's supporters were active in the countrysides.

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1908 establishments in Iran Defunct socialist parties in Iran Political parties established in 1908 Political parties in Qajar Iran {{Iran-party-stub