Government of Ali Amini
Government of Ali Amini | |
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| Date formed | 5 May 1961 |
| Date dissolved | 19 July 1962 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Mohammad Reza Shah |
| Head of government | Ali Amini |
| Total no. of members | 19 |
| Status in legislature | Parliament Dissolved |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Sharif-Emami |
| Successor | Alam |
Ali Amini was appointed to rule by decree as the Prime Minister of Iran on 5 May 1961, succeeding Jafar Sharif-Emami.[1] His cabinet was approved on 9 May 1961.[2]
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was not enthusiastic about appointing Ali Amini as prime minister.[3] In addition, the Kennedy administration established a task force, the Iran Task Force, to support the cabinet of Amini which was regarded by the Shah as a move to reduce his power and authority.[3]
Composition[edit]
Though Amini was considered a "maverick aristocrat"[4] and "too independent of the personal control of the monarch",[5] appointment of ministers of foreign affairs, war, the interior was made at the behest of the Shah.[6] All of the three portfolios, plus agriculture ministry were left unchanged in the next administration under Asadollah Alam.[7]
Most controversially, Amini gave three ministries to "middle-class reformers who had in the past criticized the political influence of the shah as well as the corrupt practices of the landed families".[4] The three portfolios were justice, agriculture and education ministries. Noureddin Alamouti, an ex-member of the Tudeh Party who later entered the inner circle of Ahmad Qavam was appointed as the justice minister while agriculture ministry went to Hassan Arsanjani who was a radical and another protege of Qavam. Muhammad Derekhshesh who was as a leader of teacher's trade union drew support from both the Tudeh and the National Front, became the education minister.[4][6] Moreover, he included Gholam-Ali Farivar as the industry minister in his cabinet, who was a former leader of the Iran Party (a party affiliated with the National Front).[8]
Cabinet[edit]
Members of Amini's cabinet were as follows:[9]
References[edit]
- ^ David Lea (2001). A Political Chronology of the Middle East. London: Europa Publications. p. 52. ISBN 9781857431155.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q S. Steinberg, ed. (2016). "IRAN: Keshvaré Shahanshahiyé Irân". The Statesman's Year-Book 1962: The one-volume Encyclopaedia of all nations. London: Springer. p. 1107. ISBN 9780230270916.
- ^ a b Ben Offiler (2021). ""A spectacular irritant": US–Iranian relations during the 1960s and the World's Best Dressed Man". The Historian. 83 (1): 29. doi:10.1080/00182370.2021.1915731.
- ^ a b c Ervand Abrahamian (1982), Iran Between Two Revolutions, Princeton University Press, pp. 422–23, ISBN 0-691-10134-5
- ^ John H. Lorentz (2010), "AMINI, ALI (1904–1992)", The A to Z of Iran, vol. 209, Scarecrow Press, pp. 26–27, ISBN 978-1461731917
- ^ a b P. Avery; William Bayne Fisher; G. R. G. Hambly; Melville, eds. (1990). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 7. Cambridge University Press. p. 275. ISBN 9780521200950.
- ^ Gholam Reza Afkhami (2008), The Life and Times of the Shah, University of California Press, pp. 226–27, ISBN 978-0-520-25328-5
- ^ Shahram Chubin; Sepehr Zabih (1974), Iran Between Two Revolutions, University of California Press, pp. 62–63, ISBN 0-691-10134-5
- ^ Michael J. Willcocks (2015). Agent or Client: Who Instigated the White Revolution of the Shah and the People in Iran, 1963 (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. p. 68.
- ^ a b Annual Report and Balance Sheet, Central Bank of Iran, 1961, pp. 49, 68
- ^ "Ministerial Appointment". Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts (36–37). Central Intelligence Agency: N4. 1962.
- ^ a b "Amuzegar Appointed Finance Minister". Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts (104–105). Central Intelligence Agency: N1. 1962.
External links[edit]
Media related to Cabinet of Ali Amini at Wikimedia Commons
