Abstract: Almost one of the common points of the researches that have been conducted on the causes of the fall of the Pahlavi regime is the discussion of the issue of corruption, especially economic corruption and its role in the public dissatisfaction of the last years of the Pahlavi regime. The problem of the current research is what the agents of the second Pahlavi government understood about the issue of economic corruption. Therefore, their writings and interviews were referred to and their opinions about the category of economic corruption were analyzed with the help of thematic analysis method.

The main question of the research is whether the government officials were aware of the existence of economic corruption and its destructive effect on the public opinion of the Iranian people. After examining the data, it was found that until the last months before the Islamic Revolution, despite being aware of economic corruption at various levels, they considered this phenomenon as a problem that could cause distrust of public opinion and disturb the stability of the government. and according to this attitude, they did not put serious anti-corruption measures on their agenda so that the society would understand that the government is taking steps in the direction of reforming corruption and anti-corruption