Word: tabriz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun flowing from the royal palace. The Shah sent crackling orders to Premier Zahedi to complete immediately an Isfahan irrigation project planned to bring thousands of acres into cultivation. He put pressure behind other reforms: a combined water supply-hydroelectric scheme for Teheran, completion of the much-needed Teheran-Tabriz railroad, low-cost workers' housing. He told Zahedi and Finance Minister Ali Amini to speed the return of the royal family estates, taken by Mohammed Mossadegh four months ago to thwart the Shah's plans to parcel out the land to landless peasants. Under the Shah...