Society for the Progress of Iran

{{Infobox political party

| name = Progressives

| leader =

| foundation = 1909

| ideology = Progressivism
Liberalism{{cite encyclopedia|title =CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION v. Political parties of the constitutional period|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|date=October 28, 2011|orig-year=December 15, 1992|publisher=Bibliotheca Persica Press|location=New York City|url =http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/constitutional-revolution-v|volume= VI|last1= Ettehadieh|first1=Mansoureh|author-link=Mansoureh Ettehadieh|editor-last=Yarshater|editor-first=Ehsan|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|access-date=September 12, 2016|series=Fasc. 2|pages=199–202}}
Iranian nationalism
Constitutionalism
Anti-imperialism{{cite journal|title=Jonub newspaper|journal=Baharestan Press|number=1|volume=1|pages=265–294|date=Autumn 2011|url=http://www.ical.ir/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_k2%26view%3Ditem%26id%3D6040:%25D8%25B1%25D9%2588%25D8%25B2%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2585%25D9%2587-%25D8%25AC%25D9%2586%25D9%2588%25D8%25A8/-%25D9%2585%25D8%25AD%25D9%2585%25D8%25AF-%25D8%25AD%25D8%25B3%25D9%2586-%25|author=Mohammad Hassannia|language=Persian}}

| religion = Islam

| headquarters = Southern Persia

| country = Iran

| newspaper = Jonub

}}

Society of the Supporters for Progress,{{cite book|last1=Haddad Adel|first1=Gholamali|last2=Elmi|first2=Mohammad Jafar|last3=Taromi-Rad|first3=Hassan|title=Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam|date=31 August 2012|publisher=EWI Press|entry=Moderate Socialist Party|isbn=9781908433022|pages=189–192}} Society for the Progress of Iran{{cite book|author1=Nikki R Keddie|author2=Rudolph P Matthee|title=Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics|year=2002|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98206-9|pages=168–169}} or Society of the Seekers of Advancement of Iran{{cite book|last=Kashani-Sabet|first=Firoozeh|title=Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|page=30|url=|isbn=}}{{ISBN?}} ({{langx|fa|جمعیت ترقی‌خواهان ایران|Jamʿīyat-e Taraqqiḵāhān-e Irān}}) or simply the Progressives, also known as the Liberals ({{langx|fa|آزادی‌خواهان|Āzādīḵᵛāhān}}) was a political party in constitutional period Persia and was active during the 2nd term of the Majlis, 1909–1911.

Progressives championed the development of the southern provinces of Persia and consisted of MPs representing the southerners. They promoted the building of hospitals, women's education and regarded Persian as "the official and scholarly" language of Iran.

Its organ Jonub ({{translation|The South}}) was printed in Tehran and usually criticized the Bakhtiari,{{cite book|last1=Browne|first1=Edward Granville|title=The Press and Poetry of Modern Persia: Partly Based on the Manuscript Work of Mírzá Muḥammad ʻAlí Khán "Tarbiyat" of Tabríz|year=1983|publisher=Kalimat Press|entry=Janub|isbn=9780933770393|page=71}} and held the view that the Iranian government did not understand the importance of the Persian Gulf region. The newspaper defended democracy and civil rights and explained that the "level of progress of any nation is symbolized in its degree of freedom of expression and press" and that the elections are the only means to exercise popular sovereignty and protect territorial integrity as well as national interests.{{cite book|title=The Iranian Political Language: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present|first=Yadullah|last=Shahibzadeh|publisher=Springer|year=2015|isbn=978-1137536839}}

The party was small and insignificant in numbers, but held the balance of power in the 2nd Majlis, allying with the Moderate Socialists Party and Union and Progress Party against the Democrat Party.