Ali Mansur
Rajab Ali Mansour ( Mansour al Molk ) (Persian ارجبعلی منصورا; * 1895, † December 8, 1974 ) was an Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran.
Life
Rajab Ali Mansour came from a prominent Iranian family. He was Foreign Secretary in 1916 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Hassan Vosough under the reign of Ahmad Shah Qajar and later governor of Azerbaijan. Under Reza Shah Pahlavi Mansour was involved as Minister of Public Works in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mahmoud Jam instrumental in the construction of the Trans- Iranian Railway. Also the construction of the famous Chalus - Tehran highway from the Caspian Sea dates back to Mansour. The construction of this road was to bring Mansour in dire straits. 1936 Rajab Ali Mansour was accused of financial irregularities in the construction of the highway. The parliament lifted his immunity as a minister and Mansour was at the center of a huge scandal. At the end of legal proceedings, his innocence was found. Mansour was fully rehabilitated and resumed as Minister of Industries and Mines to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mahmoud Jam. Two years later, in June 1940, Rajab Ali Mansour was prime minister.
The term of office of Rajab Ali Mansour, however, should take a year or a little more. After British and Russian troops entered on 25 August 1941 in the context of the Anglo - Soviet invasion of Iran, Mansour looked at August 28, 1941 forced to resign. Reza Shah Mansour suspected to have collaborated in the preparation phase of the invasion by the British. One year after the successful invasion Mansour received the proposal from the British Embassy in Iran to the Order of the British Empire, what the suspected collaboration with the British further hardened. Mansour was therefore in political circles in Iran as very pro-British.
In February 1942, Mansour took over the office of the governor of Khorasan. It should then take another eight years to Rajab Ali Mansour once again became Prime Minister on 28 March 1950. Iran stood before the economic bankruptcy and Prime Minister Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei had turned to the Ambassador of the United States and asked for financial support from the U.S. for the much-needed infrastructure investments in agriculture, road construction and construction of airports. On 27 May 1949, Foreign Minister Ala had turned once more to the U.S. government for financial help. It was about a loan of $ 500 million dollars. But the U.S. refused. On January 26, 1950, Foreign Minister Hossein Ala took another attempt to finally get substantial financial support for the construction of the country from the U.S.. This time, it was rejected, so that Maraghei Prime Minister resigned in March 1950, he saw no way to put the building program planned by the factory.
Rajab Ali Mansour was elected on 28 March 1950 for the Prime Minister. Thanks to its good political ties to the British he had put the possibility of the prospect to get financial support for Iran from England. However, it quickly became apparent that the merits Mansour from 1941, which had earned him a British order, no longer counted in 1950. The British considered Mansour as a man " with some weaknesses ". In an internal report, he was classified as "opium addict " and " highly corrupt ". After only three months Mansour saw that he had overestimated the value of his relations with the British completely and resigned from the post of Prime Minister back in favor of General Haj Ali Razmara.
The remaining years of his career was spent Rajab Ali Mansour as Iranian ambassador to the Vatican and Turkey. Rajab Ali Mansour was married and had a son, Hassan Ali Mansour, which should be 1963 to 1965 also Prime Minister of Iran.