Government of Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1965–1967)

The cabinet led by Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda was inaugurated on 26 January 1965 to succeed the cabinet of Hassan Ali Mansur due to the assassination of Mansur on 21 January.[1] Like its predecessor the cabinet was led by the Iran Novin Party.[2]

Government of Amir Abbas Hoveyda

Cabinet of Pahlavi Iran
Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda
Date formed26 January 1965 (1965-01-26)
Date dissolved1967 (1967)
People and organisations
Head of stateMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Head of governmentAmir-Abbas Hoveyda
Member partyIran Novin Party
Opposition partyPeople's Party
History
PredecessorGovernment of Hassan Ali Mansur
SuccessorSecond Government of Amir Abbas Hoveyda

Hoveyda was the minister of finance in the previous cabinet, and it was his first premiership which would last until 1977.[3]

List of ministers

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The cabinet was consisted of the following members.[4][5]

Portfolio Minister Took office Left office Party
Prime Minister26 January 19651967 Iran Novin
Deputy Prime Minister26 January 19651967 Military
Deputy Prime Minister
Qassan Rezai
26 January 19651967 
Deputy Prime Minister26 January 19651967 
Deputy Prime Minister
Nassir Assar
26 January 19651967 
Deputy Prime Minister
Karim Pasha Bahaduri
26 January 19651967 
Minister of Culture26 January 19651967 
Minister of War26 January 19651967 
Minister of Foreign Affairs26 January 19651966 
19661967 
Minister of Agriculture26 January 19651967 Military
Minister of Interior26 January 19651967 Iran Novin
Minister of Telegraph and Telephone
Farhang Shafii
26 January 19651967 
Minister of Finance26 January 19651967 
Minister of Roads
Dr. Salchian
26 January 19651967 
Minister of Justice
Baqer Amili
26 January 19651967 
Minister of Labor26 January 19651967 Iran Novin Party
Minister of Health
Manuchehr Shahqoli
26 January 19651967 
Minister of Education
Hadi Hedayati
26 January 19651967 
Minister of Economy26 January 19651967 Independent
Minister of Posts
Fatollah Satodeh
26 January 19651967 
Minister of Information26 January 19651967 Military
Minister of Water and Power26 January 19651967 
Minister of Development and Housing
Hushang Nahavandi
26 January 19651967 
Minister of State
Mahmoud Kashfian
26 January 19651967 
Minister of State26 January 19651967 Iran Novin Party
Minister of State
Manuchehr Godarzi
26 January 19651967 
Minister of State
Abdol Ali Jahanshahi
26 January 19651967 
Minister of State
Mohammad Nasiri
26 January 19651967 
Minister of State
Javad Mansur
26 January 19651967 

Changes

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In 1966 Abbas Aram, minister of foreign affairs, was replaced by Ardeshir Zahedi.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Memorandum From the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Hughes) to Secretary of State Rusk". Office of the Historian. 28 January 1965.
  2. ^ Helen Chapin Metz, ed. (1987). Iran: A Country Study. Washington, DC: GPO for the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0844411873. OCLC 213407459.
  3. ^ Parvin Merat Amini (2002). "A Single Party State in Iran, 1975-78: The Rastakhiz Party - the Final Attempt by the Shah to Consolidate his Political Base". Middle Eastern Studies. 38 (1): 159. doi:10.1080/714004438. JSTOR 4284214.
  4. ^ S. H. Steinberg, ed. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1966-67. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 1136. ISBN 978-0-230-27095-4.
  5. ^ Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. 1965. p. 1-PA21.
  6. ^ Roham Alvandi (2016). Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-061068-5.