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The Imperial state of Iran, the government of Iran during the Pahlavi dynasty, lasted from 1925 to 1979. Corruption was a serious problem in Pahlavi dynasty.〔Milani, p. 471〕 == Scale of corruption == Stephanie Cronin of Oriental Institute, Oxford, describes corruption under rule of Reza Shah as "large-scale".〔Cronin, p. 6〕 As oil prices rose in 1973, scale of corruption also rose, particularly among royal family, their partners and friends. According to Manouchehr Ganji who created a study group for Farah Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah was not sensitive to the issue, but addressed every now and then petty matters of low-ranking officials. As Ganji writes, the group submitted at least 30 solid reports within 13 years on corruption of high-ranking officials and the royal circle, but Shah called the reports "false rumors and fabrications". Parviz Sabeti, a high-ranking official of SAVAK believed that the one important reason for success of regime's opposition is corruption.〔Ganji, p. 8-9〕 According to report of a journal associated with The Pentagon, "By 1977 the sheer scale of corruption had reached a boiling point.... Even conservative estimates indicate that such () corruption involved at least a billion dollars between 1973 and 1976."〔Abrhamian (1982), p. 118〕 In Michel Foucault's view, corruption was a "glue" that kept Pahlavi dynasty, despotism and modernization together.〔Afary and Anderson, p. 79〕 After the revolution, Central Bank of Iran published a list of 177 prominent individuals who had recently transferred over $2 billion out of the country, among them:〔Abrahamian (1982), p. 517〕 *Jafar Sharif-Emami, some $31 million *Gholam Ali Oveisi, $15 million *Namazi, $9 million, *Jamshid Amouzegar, $5 millIon *Nasser Moghadam, $2 million *"Mayor of Tehran", $6 million *"Minister of Health, $7 million *"Director of the National Iranian Oil Company", over $60 million 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corruption in the Pahlavi dynasty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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