Iran’s First National Consultative Assembly (Parliament) was established when Iran was in a weak
economic condition. erefore, the members of this parliament focused on overcoming the -nancial
problems and economic obstacles, and they established their -rst specialized working group
titled ""Malieh (Finance) Commission”. However, the parliament members faced many problems
in covering their personal living expenses due to leaving their personal jobs and having to reside
in Tehran. Consequently, the National Consultative Assembly had to -nd a solution to a new challenge:
-nancial support of its members.
e main question of this research is: being short of -nancial resources and having no -nancial
and administrative experience in the parliamentary system, what -nancial and administrative
measurements and framework did the parliament use to pay the salaries of its sta and members?
In applying the method of historical research, all the necessary pieces of information were gathered
from library resources, focusing on the records existing in the Document Center of Iran’s
Parliament. is information was processed in a rational historical sequence and then analyzed.
e -ndings of this research show that the First National Consultative Assembly of Iran was only
able to pay a small amount of its sta and members’ salary by applying the -nancial and administrative
experiences of the governmental system of Iran. A signi-cant proportion was postponed
to the next rounds of the Parliament when it was paid to them or their heirs. e period of the
-rst National Consultative Assembly was so short that the members only focused on solving the
country’s economic problems, and its -nancial resources were so inadequate that they could only
pay limited attention to the internal a airs of the Parliament. Consequently the First Parliament
did not have an orderly approach to -nancial management
