Sayyid Salih Jabr (Arabic: سيد صالح جبر‎; 1896–1957) was an Iraqi statesman who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from March 1947 to January 1948.

[3] In October 1936, after the Golden Square coup d'état of general Bakr Sidqi,[4] Jabr became the Minister of Justice in Hikmat Sulayman's government.

[5] During that period, Jabr would meet up with Sidqi, Sulayman, Muhsin Abu-Tabikh, and several significant figures in his house at night to discuss several topics.

The government of Nuri Pasha sent several hundred political opponents to an internment camp and removed pan-Arabists from the Iraqi army and public administration.

[14] Jabr, now Prime Minister and accompanied by Nuri Pasha, initiated talks with the United Kingdom regarding the renegotiation and revision of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930.

They were conducted in secret, for fear of the outbreak of riots and the mobilization of the political organizations that demanded the immediate departure of British influence from Iraq.

Jabr, as a minister, again fell victim to sectarianist issues when he was criticized by Sunni Muslims and accused of corruption and enforcing his doctrine on them.

Its program was addressed to workers and the younger intellectual class, as well as to Muslims of Shi'i origin from the villages on the Euphrates River, who had already supported Jabr before.

[23] Over time, Jabr became one of the biggest critics of Nuri Pasha al-Said and supporters of electoral reform, enabling his fight against abuse and fraud.

In the face of demonstrations inspired by these activities, the regent agreed to electoral reform, but the Constitutional Union Party still won the 1953 Iraqi parliamentary election.

[25][26] Before 1954, Jabr reformed the group into the "Socialist Nation Party," which won 21 seats in the June 1954 Iraqi parliamentary election and expressed its willingness to cooperate with Nuri Pasha and the Constitutional Unionists.