REFORMS IN PERSIA
Majority In Favour
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) TEHERAN, January 27.
The Persian Government today announced a massive vote of confidence for the Shah’s new land reform laws. The latest count showed 4,912,871 voted for and only 3824 against in the nationwide referendum, the Associated Press said.
In Washington, followers of the former Persian Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadiq, denounced the referendum today as an “undemocratic and unconstitutional fraud” and picketed the White House in protest. The group, calling itself the Iranian National Front in exile, adopted a statement condemning today’s voting in Persia at a meeting attended by about 200 persons. About 150 carried placards in a short demonstration in front of the White House. The six reform bills are: a land reform splitting the vast privately - owned estates among landless peasants; compulsory education; a bill allotting 20 per cent, of all factories' profits to the workers; nationalisation of forests; sale of Government-owned factories to private industrialists; and new electoral laws.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30042, 29 January 1963, Page 15
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