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The Senate of Iran (Persian: Kakh-e Majles-e Sena کاخ مجلس سنا) was the upper house legislative chamber in Iran from 1949 to 1979. A bicameral legislature had been established in the 1906 Persian Constitutional Revolution but the Senate was not actually formed until after the Iran Constituent Assembly 1949 as an expression of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s desire for more political power.