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Manouchehr Eghbal
37th Prime Minister of Iran
In office
3 April 1957 – September 1960
MonarchMohammad Reza Shah
Preceded byHossein Ala'
Succeeded byJafar Sharif-Emami
Personal details
Born13 October 1909
Kashmar, Qajar Iran
Died25 November 1977(1977-11-25) (aged 68)
Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Political party
SpouseAlice Eghbal
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Tehran

Manouchehr Eghbal (Persian: منوچهر اقبال; 13 October 1909 – 25 November 1977) was an Iranian physician and royalist politician. He was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1957 to 1960.

Early life and education

Eghbal was born in 1909, and his family were from Khorasan.[1] He studied at Darolfonoon, and finished advanced studies in medicine in Paris in 1933.[1]

Career

Eghbal's Cabinet - Ali-Akbar Zargham (far left), Teymur Bakhtiar (fourth from left), Manuchehr Eghbal (center), Jafar Sharif-Emami (left of Eghbal), Jamshid Amouzegar (right of Eghbal), Asadollah Alam (far right)

Following his graduation in 1933 Eghbal was employed as a physician in Mashhad.[1] During the 1940s he was made deputy health minister.[1] In 1950, Eghbal was appointed chancellor of Tabriz University, followed by Tehran University in 1954. Five years later he became Iran's envoy to UNESCO. He then taught at Sorbonne for a while and became a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine. During this period he founded the Nationalists' Party[2] and served as the party's chair.[3]

He served as the minister of health in Ahmad Ghavam's cabinet, minister of culture in Abdolhosein Hazhir's cabinet, minister of transportation in Ali Mansur's cabinet, and interior minister in Mohammad Sa'ed's cabinet. He also served as the governor of East Azarbaijan province.[4]

In April 1957, he became prime minister, replacing Hussein Ala in the post.[4][5] His cabinet lasted until September 1960,[6] and he was replaced by Sharif Emami as prime minister.[7] Until his death, he served as the chairman of the National Iranian Oil Company.[8] He was also one of the close aides to the Shah.[9]

Personal life and death

Eghbal married a French woman and had three daughters.[10] The eldest Nicole became a nun.[10] The second, Monique, married a Swiss surgeon and had a daughter, Muriel Pedrazzini.[10] The youngest daughter, Maryam Francoise, first married Prince Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi in October 1964 when she was 18 years old,[11] but the marriage ended in divorce and she married Shahriar Shafiq.[10]

Eghbal died of a heart attack on 25 November 1977 in Tehran, aged 68.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d James A. Bill (1988). The Eagle and the Lion. The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations. New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press. p. 102. doi:10.12987/9780300159516-006. ISBN 978-0-300-04412-6. S2CID 246116954.
  2. ^ Leonard Binder (1962). Iran. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. p. 203. doi:10.1525/9780520317710. ISBN 9780520317710.
  3. ^ Helmut Richards (September 1975). "America's Shah Shahanshah's Iran". MERIP Reports (40): 12. doi:10.2307/3011479. JSTOR 3011479.
  4. ^ a b "Iran premier will quit". Schenectady Gazette. 2 April 1957. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Iran minister resigns post". Gettysburg Times. Tehran. 3 April 1957. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  6. ^ Marvin Zonis (1971). Political Elite of Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 129. doi:10.1515/9781400868803. ISBN 9781400868803.
  7. ^ "Iran teachers' protest Iranian premier from office". The Press Courier. 5 May 1961. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  8. ^ Mehdi Zarghamee (2011). "Mojtahedi and the Founding of the Arya-Mehr University of Technology". Iranian Studies. 44 (5): 771. doi:10.1080/00210862.2011.570485. S2CID 145012971.
  9. ^ "Centers of Power in Iran" (PDF). CIA. May 1972. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  10. ^ a b c d "Manouchehr Eghbal". Memim encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022.
  11. ^ "People Make News". The Calgary Herald. 22 October 1964. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  12. ^ "Dr. Manouchehr Eghbal Iranian Ex‐Prime Minister". The New York Times. Tehran. Associated Press. 26 November 1977. Retrieved 8 January 2022.

Further reading

'Alí Rizā Awsatí. (2003). Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh ), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing, Tehran, Iran). ISBN 964-93406-6-1 (Vol. 1), ISBN 964-93406-5-3 (Vol. 2).

Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Iran
1957–1960 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by
Office established
 Leader of the Nationalists’ Party
1957–1963 		Succeeded by
Office abolished
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