The Role of Government in Economic Development; A Comparative Study between Iran and Malaysia During (1981-2003)

The Middle East region, especially the oil-rich Iran, is regarded as one of Malaysia’s impor-tant economic and trading partners. Economic and political changes at the global and re-gional level have simultaneously shifted Malaysia’s interests in the region. At the same time, there has also been rising interest from countries in the region to expand their econom-ic relationships with Malaysia. Given that the determination of the elite and the government, mobilizing resources and facilities and providing a safe and peaceful environment is needed to achieve development, the political structure and the government play a significant role in this regard, because the political structure of the government has a significant effect on at-tracting both foreign and domestic funds or the flight of financial and human capital, priori-tizing development and various economic, political and military dimensions, etc. The com-parative study of government and economic development programs in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Malaysia is the most important innovation in the present research, which has so far been less studied as a comparative study. This study was carried out aimed to conduct a comparative study of the common and different aspects in the political structure and gov-ernment and their role in the economic development of Iran and Malaysia, which discus-sions have been written using historical adaptive methods and reference to library resources.