Historical Organization
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Organization Timeline
The Majles approves the international oil consortium
📅 21 October 1954The agreement restored foreign companies to Iran’s oil industry through a consortium, although formal ownership remained Iranian. Critics viewed it as a retreat from genuine national control.
Teachers demonstrate in Tehran
📅 2 May 1961Teachers gathered outside the Majles demanding better pay and conditions. The protest expressed wider anger about inequality and authoritarian government.
The Majles approves military immunity provisions
📅 13 October 1964Legislation extended legal immunities to American military personnel and advisers. Opponents called it capitulation because Iranian courts lost jurisdiction.
Capitulation becomes a symbol of lost sovereignty
📅 13 October 1964Revolutionary supporters treated the immunity law as proof that the monarchy placed foreign personnel above Iranian law.
Iran holds elections under the one-party system
📅 20 June 1975All candidates belonged to Rastakhiz, demonstrating the absence of meaningful electoral competition.