The consequences of oil economy in the second Pahlavi era on the structure of politics in Iranian society

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Hossein Hossenzadeh ¹ , Fereydoun Akbarzadeh ² , Lena Abdolkhani ³ , Hamed Mohaghegh nia ⁴

1 - Department of Political Sciences, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Department of Political Sciences, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Department of Political Sciences, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
4 - Department of Political Sciences, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2020-10-27 Accepted : 2022-01-17 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: army, SAVAK, Oil Economy, Rastakhiz Party, Program and Budget Organization,

Abstract :

Iran's economy in the second decade of Mohammad Reza Shah's rule, Iran became more and more rent-seeking and oil-rich. With the nationalization of the oil industry, oil revenues belonged to Iran, and although after that an oil consortium was formed to extract and sell Iranian oil, but gradually the position of oil in the economy and consequently Iran's policy became special and very influential. To the extent that oil rents led to the formation of an oil rentier government, which had many internal and external consequences for Iran. In this article, using analytical-descriptive method, the question is what were the most important consequences of "oiling" the economy for politics and government in Iran, in internal dimensions? One of the most important internal achievements of this dependence was the establishment of administrative, political and security institutions, in the light of oil revenues and reforms from above, by the Shah relying more than anything on the revenues he had earned from oil