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...Amini, 53, a wealthy, French-educated (University of Grenoble) landowner with liberal political views who privately believes that Iran's 200,000-man army is too costly, its Development Plan too small, and the Shah too deeply involved in politics for his own good. After taking stock, Amini made a sobering report to the nation. "There is no life left in the economic and financial agencies of the government," he declared. To the striking teachers, he confessed: "The treasury is empty, and the nation faces a crisis-I dare not speak more openly lest I create a panic." Then...
Said Iran's Finance Minister Ali Amini: "If we want to attract foreign investments, we must give foreign investors better opportunities and secure them more profit. Otherwise, no one will care to invest in Iran...
...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's scheme, the peasants will make a small payment for the land, work it with...