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Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the handsome, greying Shah of Iran, stepped from the plane one day last week, exchanged greetings with Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, Premier Amintore Fanfani and six Cabinet ministers...
...Shah of Iran, jolted by the murder of his 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...
...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. Why was the Shah doing this to them? demanded the harassed and injured politicians. The Shah's reply: "I have a ten-year program of reforms. My object is to make our country a model country where basic freedoms will be extended. But one freedom cannot be tolerated-the freedom of betraying...
...Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, sole owner of the crown's 2.5 million acres, is Iran's biggest single landholder. Since 1950 he has distributed his vast farm properties to the peasants of some 100 of his villages. To help establish a new class of independent farmers, a Development Bank has lent the new small holders money at low interest. But his fellow landlords (who own 70% of Iran's arable acres, the vast majority of its 40,000 villages) have heeded neither the Shah's example nor his exhortations to sell some of their land...
...revolution in neighboring Iraq that swept King Feisal to his death last summer and touched off sweeping land reform appears to have strengthened the Shah's reforming hand in Iran. Last week, though the landlords of Iran are as numerous and as niggardly as ever in the national parliament and ministries, the Shah boldly cut off one of their most cherished privileges. Through the years, on top of their usual fat share of their tenants' crops, landlords have been accustomed to take "gifts" from their peasants of "cattle, lambs, chickens, eggs, marriage dues, fines for quarreling, and presents...