Government of Ali Amini

Ali Amini was appointed to rule by decree as the Prime Minister of Iran on 5 May 1961, succeeding Jafar Sharif-Emami.[1] His cabinet was approved on 9 May 1961.[2]

Government of Ali Amini

cabinet of Iran
Date formed5 May 1961 (1961-05-05)
Date dissolved19 July 1962 (1962-07-19)
People and organisations
Head of stateMohammad Reza Shah
Head of governmentAli Amini
Total no. of members19
Status in legislatureParliament Dissolved
History
PredecessorSharif-Emami
SuccessorAlam

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was not enthusiastic about appointing Ali Amini as prime minister.[3] In addition, the Kennedy administration established a task force, the Iran Task Force, to support the cabinet of Amini which was regarded by the Shah as a move to reduce his power and authority.[3]

Composition

Though Amini was considered a "maverick aristocrat"[4] and "too independent of the personal control of the monarch",[5] appointment of ministers of foreign affairs, war, the interior was made at the behest of the Shah.[6] All of the three portfolios, plus agriculture ministry were left unchanged in the next administration under Asadollah Alam.[7]

Most controversially, Amini gave three ministries to "middle-class reformers who had in the past criticized the political influence of the shah as well as the corrupt practices of the landed families".[4] The three portfolios were justice, agriculture and education ministries. Noureddin Alamouti, an ex-member of the Tudeh Party who later entered the inner circle of Ahmad Qavam was appointed as the justice minister while agriculture ministry went to Hassan Arsanjani who was a radical and another protege of Qavam. Muhammad Derekhshesh who was as a leader of teacher's trade union drew support from both the Tudeh and the National Front, became the education minister.[4][6] Moreover, he included Gholam-Ali Farivar as the industry minister in his cabinet, who was a former leader of the Iran Party (a party affiliated with the National Front).[8]

Cabinet

Members of Amini's cabinet were as follows:[9]

PortfolioMinisterTook officeLeft officePartyRef
Prime Minister5 May 196119 July 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
Foreign Minister9 May 19611 April 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
1 April 196219 July 1962 Nonpartisan
Interior Minister9 May 196119 July 1962 Military[2]
Agriculture Minister9 May 196119 July 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
Culture Minister
Mohammad Derakhshesh
9 May 196119 July 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
Commerce Minister
Ali-Asghar Pourhomayoun
*		9 May 19611 July 1961 People's Party[10]
1 July 196128 May 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
Finance Minister9 May 196117 February 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
Mohammad-Ali Hanjani
*		17 February 196228 May 1962 Nonpartisan[11]
28 May 196219 July 1962 Nonpartisan[12]
Justice Minister9 May 196119 July 1962 People's Party[2]
Labor Minister9 May 196119 July 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
Post & Telegraph Minister
Houshang Samii
9 May 196119 July 1962 Nationalists[2]
Public Health Minister3 June 196119 July 1962 Military[2]
Roads Minister
Jamal Ganji
9 May 196119 July 1962 People's Party[2]
Mine & Industry Minister9 May 196131 December 1961 Nonpartisan[10]
Taqi Sarlak
31 December 196119 July 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
War Minister9 May 196119 July 1962 Military[2]
Minister without portfolio
Hadi Ashtari
9 May 196119 July 1962 Nonpartisan[2]
Minister without portfolio
Ali-Asghar Pourhomayoun
9 May 196119 July 1962 People's Party[2]
Minister without portfolio28 May 196219 July 1962 Nonpartisan[12]

References
  1. David Lea (2001). A Political Chronology of the Middle East. London: Europa Publications. p. 52. ISBN 9781857431155.
  2. S. Steinberg, ed. (2016). "IRAN: Keshvaré Shahanshahiyé Irân". The Statesman's Year-Book 1962: The one-volume Encyclopaedia of all nations. London: Springer. p. 1107. ISBN 9780230270916.
  3. Ben Offiler (2021). ""A spectacular irritant": US–Iranian relations during the 1960s and the World's Best Dressed Man". The Historian. 83 (1): 29. doi:10.1080/00182370.2021.1915731.
  4. Ervand Abrahamian (1982), Iran Between Two Revolutions, Princeton University Press, pp. 422–23, ISBN 0-691-10134-5
  5. John H. Lorentz (2010), "AMINI, ALI (1904–1992)", The A to Z of Iran, vol. 209, Scarecrow Press, pp. 26–27, ISBN 978-1461731917
  6. P. Avery; William Bayne Fisher; G. R. G. Hambly; Melville, eds. (1990). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 7. Cambridge University Press. p. 275. ISBN 9780521200950.
  7. Gholam Reza Afkhami (2008), The Life and Times of the Shah, University of California Press, pp. 226–27, ISBN 978-0-520-25328-5
  8. Shahram Chubin; Sepehr Zabih (1974), Iran Between Two Revolutions, University of California Press, pp. 62–63, ISBN 0-691-10134-5
  9. Michael J. Willcocks (2015). Agent or Client: Who Instigated the White Revolution of the Shah and the People in Iran, 1963 (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. p. 68.
  10. Annual Report and Balance Sheet, Central Bank of Iran, 1961, pp. 49, 68
  11. "Ministerial Appointment". Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. Central Intelligence Agency (36–37): N4. 1962.
  12. "Amuzegar Appointed Finance Minister". Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. Central Intelligence Agency (104–105): N1. 1962.
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