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...Being one myself, I know how to deal with them." Amini's method: a land distribution program aimed at transforming Iran's 16 million peasants from semifeudal serfs into farmer-owners. Premier Amini fortnight ago embarked on a program that will sell off Iran's 25,000 privately owned villages (two-thirds of all farm land) to peasant cooperatives. As an added twist of the screw, the government will get even with rich landowners who for decades have cheated on their taxes; compensation for expropriated lands will be based on the niggardly profits their owners have reported...
...Landlords are shifty poltroons," says Iran's reform-minded Premier Ali Amini...
Last week Iran's powerful landowners struck back. In the classic ploy by which extreme right and left wings join forces to overthrow a moderate regime, the reactionary landlords hitched up with the Communist-infiltrated National Front Party in an attempt to bring down Amini's regime by mob violence...
...biggest surprise to Iranians was not the riots but the swift and decisive way in which Liberal Amini put them down. Student violence is particularly perilous in Iran, where half the population is under 18 and the new middle class is bitterly disaffected by the nation's erratic, corruption-stunted progress toward democracy. At one point, Amini picked up the phone and told a fellow landowner: "I know you've spent $75,000 trying to overthrow me. Please continue, and I'll clap you in jail." Said a Teheran politico: "If Amini had wavered for a moment...
Last week police were still holding Abol Hassan Ebtehaj "for investigation" without bail. Even Premier Amini was saying, "He is an honest man, and I hope he soon will be released." Commented the New York Times: "American friends of Iran can only feel distress...