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We consider estimation of the multicomponent stress-strength reliability for inverted exponentiated Rayleigh distributions under progressive Type II censoring. It is assumed that stress and strength variables follow inverted exponentiated Rayleigh distributions with a common scale parameter. Point and interval estimates of the reliability are obtained using maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches when common parameter is unknown. Bayes estimates are derived using Lindley approximation and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The case of known common parameter is also considered. Then uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator of the reliability is derived. We have also computed the exact Bayes estimates under the squared error loss function. The asymptotic and HPD intervals of the reliability are constructed under this case also. Proposed methods are compared numerically using simulations and comments are obtained. Finally, a real data set is analyzed for illustration purposes.