This examination focuses on a critical infrastructural pillar of the White Revolution (Enqelāb-e Sefid): the massive campaign to extend electricity to Iran’s villages. While land reform was the political centrepiece, rural electrification was its functional counterpart, representing the regime’s promise to deliver tangible modernity to the countryside. As explored in the main overview of the White Revolution, the Pahlavi state sought legitimacy not merely through redistribution but through a spectacle of development. Electrification was the most visible symbol of this promise—the literal bringing of “light” to what was portrayed as a backward, dark realm