Manouchehr Eghbal

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.

Manouchehr Eghbal
37th Prime Minister of Iran
In office
3 April 1957 – 1 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

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 the cabinet led by Ahmad Qavam, minister of education in the cabinet of Abdolhossein Hazhir (1948),[4] minister of transportation in the cabinet led by Ali Mansur, and interior minister in the cabinet of Mohammad Sa'ed. Eghbal also served as the governor of East Azarbaijan province.[5]

In April 1957, he became prime minister, replacing Hossein Ala' in the post.[5][6] His cabinet lasted until September 1960,[7] and he was replaced by Jafar Sharif-Emami as prime minister.[8] Until his death, he served as the chairman of the National Iranian Oil Company.[9] He was also one of the close aides to the Shah and also, served as a board member of the royal organization of social welfare headed by Ashraf Pahlavi.[10][11]

Personal life and death

Eghbal married a French woman and had three daughters.[12] The eldest Nicole became a nun.[12] The second, Monique, married a Swiss surgeon and had a daughter, Muriel Pedrazzini.[12] The youngest daughter, Maryam Francoise, first married Prince Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi in October 1964 when she was 18 years old,[13] but the marriage ended in divorce and she married Shahriar Shafiq.[12]

Eghbal died of a heart attack on 25 November 1977 in Tehran, aged 68.[14]

References
  1. 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. T. A. Votichenko (October 1948). "Developments of the Quarter: Comment and Chronology". The Middle East Journal. 2 (4): 454–455. JSTOR 4322013.
  5. "Iran premier will quit". Schenectady Gazette. 2 April 1957. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  6. "Iran minister resigns post". Gettysburg Times. Tehran. 3 April 1957. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  7. Marvin Zonis (1971). Political Elite of Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 129. doi:10.1515/9781400868803. ISBN 9781400868803.
  8. "Iran teachers' protest Iranian premier from office". The Press Courier. 5 May 1961. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  9. 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.
  10. "Ashraf Pahlavi". IICHS. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  11. "Centers of Power in Iran" (PDF). CIA. May 1972. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  12. "Manouchehr Eghbal". Memim encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022.
  13. "People Make News". The Calgary Herald. 22 October 1964. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  14. "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).

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