Word: eghbal
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Shah's absence in Europe, his Prime Minister Manouchehr Eghbal last week rammed through the docile Majlis the Shah's anticorruption bill which requires all government officials, civil or military, to file an inventory of their properties, as well as those of their wives and children. An earlier bill forbade ministers, government officials, Deputies, Senators or members of the royal family from dealing in any way with companies having or seeking contracts from the government...
...neighbor, the King of Iraq, has been looking anxiously at his country's need for reform. Iran's rich, rigid and feudal-minded landowners in turn have been looking nervously at the Shah's designs on them. When the Shah's Prime Minister Manouchehr Eghbal strolled in the Majlis grounds last week, Deputies waiting for the Assembly session to begin asked him jokingly what ill wind brought him to the Chamber. "You'll see shortly," responded Eghbal...
Before the Deputies had recovered from the first blow, they were struck another. Eghbal introduced a second bill requiring all government officials, civil or military, to file an inventory of their movable and immovable properties, as well as those of their wives and children. If any should make false statements or refuse to answer, their properties would be confiscated by the government. The idea, he explained, is to "chuck out all corrupt officials." And he promised future bills, probably including a long overdue one for limiting land ownership in Iran and breaking up the vast feudal properties...
Pakistan's strongman President Iskander Mirza denied that he had ever discussed federation with other nations. In Teheran. Premier Manouchehr Eghbal was more careful: "Iran has no intention of participating in a federation with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the immediate future." Radio Kabul made its answer clear by beating the drum again for an independent "Pakhtoonistan," to include a large slice of West Pakistan...