Imperial Inspectorate Organization

The Imperial Inspectorate Organization was an organization of the Iranian Pahlavi government established in 1959 to handle complaints from the public about government officials and agencies. The organization reported directly to the Shah, and was initially headed by General Hossein Fardoust, a childhood friend of the monarch.{{cite book|author=Margaret Irene Laing|title=The Shah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-xtAAAAMAAJ|date=February 1977|publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson|page=209}} In its first year of operation, the department "received 52,000 complaints and dismissed 424 officials".{{cite book|author=Dishon|title=Middle East Record 1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3torytPXdUC&pg=PA489|date=1 October 1973|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-21611-8|pages=489–}}

Prime Minister Ali Amini dissolved the organization in 1962 during a reduction in the size of government, but it was later reestablished in 1968.{{cite book|title=Year Book Covering the Year ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rrfAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation|page=307}} The IIO was abolished following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, but later reestablished as the Islamic Inspectorate Organization.{{cite book|author=Venkateswarier Subramaniam|title=Public Administration in the Third World: An International Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrltdQFpkeEC&pg=PA171|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-24730-9|pages=171–}}