1972 Iranian General Election

General elections were held in the Imperial State of Iran to elect 650 members of the National Consultative Assembly, the unicameral legislature existing since 1961 as an element of a collective effort to modernize the state. The election took place as the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi signed various decrees allowing universal suffrage and the formation of an official two-party system as an "experiment" for democracy after the tales of the 1953 coup.