وطنم وطنم (Vatanam)
"عدالت او را پیشنهاد من انجام دهید، به عنوان او به من قضاوت خواهد کرد"
"Justice He bids me do, as He will judge me"
Education, Transportation, Administration
Even with the war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the modernisation of Iran continued; to put it in the words of the Shah "Progress is unstoppable, and so is Iran.". As to this effect, the Shah, urged on by the meritocratic Majlis, to reform and strengthen the administrative system. These reforms especially strengthened the Majlis themselves, as this parliament was not actually elected, yet was promoted by the Shah and his Privy council to their positions from the various administrators around the country. Reza Pahlavi did not like a democratic form of government at all, he prefered what he called the "Kemalist" form of government: A single person ruling over the country with a group of skilled advisors under them to advise and manage various operations. One major opposition group to this "Meritocratic Oilgarchy" was the land-owning elite, as they saw the parliament as a force subverse their ancient authority. Reza had many confrontations with the Aristocrats and Imams of Iran before, both of whom opposed his reforms from different points of views, and both whom were set to loose the most during Iran's modernisation.
The Members of the Iranian Majlis, the Parliament of Iran. They had encouraged the Shah to enact the new administrative reforms to weaken the Land-owning elites in the country, and thus empower the legislative branch of the government.
The reforms themselves weren't that radical, it had more of a focus on law enforcement; on a fundamental level, one of the main mandates for the Shah's rule was enforcing rule of law in Iran. The main two parts of the administrative reforms were setting up local police forces, and large organised metropolitan forces in cities like Tehran & Tabriz, and setting up news courts to ensure that even people in outlying villages had courts in the nearest towns. There were some other aspects for the reforms; with the Soviet War on the state needed money, so tax collecting offices were also set up in important towns to increase the efficiency of the tax collectors themselves. The final part to these new reforms was possibly the most important long-term: The first offical, fully explorative census was taken. This was meant to show where investment and development were most needed and what the actually ethnic, religious and economic make-up of the country was. These would show that while the majority of the country was Shiite, the minorities of the country would still remain entrenched in certain areas, with the Jewish community being larger than predicted. Arguably the most important finding from this census was that the areas in most need of development were the Eastern Tribes Tajik and the Azeri and Kurdistani communities in the West. These would impact the Shah's plans for the next year.
The Plurality of Iran, first truly shown in the Census of 1937.
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