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Word: arsanjani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Ministry of Education alone, 643 officials were fired, and 370 others were pried away from their bureaucratic desks and ordered out into the provinces to teach people how to read. In the Ministry of Agriculture, new Minister Hassan Arsanjani ordered a fresh topographic survey of government-owned lands, preparatory to parceling them out to landless peasants. As for Iran's big landowners, Premier Amini personally warned: "I do not expect slow action from you either." A long-ignored law restricting individual family holdings to 1,000 acres of irrigated, and 2,000 acres of nonirrigated land was dusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Time, Gentlemen, Please | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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