Senate of Iran
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title:
Senate of Iran
text:
The Senate was the upper house legislative chamber in the Imperial State of Iran from 1949 to 1979. A bicameral legislature had been established in the 1906 Persian Constitutional Revolution but the Senate was not actually formed until after the 1949 Constituent Assembly election, as an expression of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's desire for better distribution of power. Half of the sixty seats in the senate were directly appointed by the Shah, and the other half were directly elected, fifteen rep
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description:
Former upper house of the Iranian Parliament (1949–1979)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_Iran
date created:
2006-06-13T08:06:33Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T02:43:28Z
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