Word: manouchehr
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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...
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...