1966 Tehran

Already starting in late 1965, the Assembly started seeing repeated speeches from a certain circle of prominent Republicans addressing the status of agricultural and rural reform in Iran. Spearheading the effort have been Dr. Ali Shayegan the Minister of Industry, Gholam Hossein Sadighi the House Speaker, Shapour Bakhtiar the Minister of Agriculture, and Adib Boroumand the Minister of Population. Speaking of efficient rural workforce distribution, large community farms, industrialized agricultural production and regulated land use, the 4 Republicans introduce and coerce their co-partisans and opponents into thinking their way. A general plan is presented by Minister Shayegan detailing the envisioned goals of production and production centers in Iran, justifying in great detail the location and working principle of all production centers. During the speeches and the ensuing debates, the Assembly takes to calling the whole thing the Shayegan Plan, straying from Shayegan's own 'Action for Advancement of Urbanization, Efficient Workforce Distribution and Agricultural-Industrial Development'.

Without much issue the team has pushed through the creation of a Government Commission between their 4 respective Ministries called the Rural Development Commission, aimed at combating rural stagnation and creating a development plan to push the state's agricultural sector to new heights. Immediately following the first, a second bill passed in due haste with out-of-parliament opposition from the Democratic party, giving the Rural Development Commission the powers to effectively "reassign peasants where deemed necessary by the Commission". The bill involves obligating the government to fund and aid the resettlement of peasants. The Commission will be allowed to relocate a maximum of 150,000 peasants per year within the country. The issue of the private property of the peasants in question was left rather vague in the bill, stating merely that "due compensation would be offered".

With their hands now free, Shayegan and Bakhtiar devise a decree to establish state-owned companies under the Ministry of Agriculture to oversee and direct the production of all of Iran's major and medium crops, directing special attention at Iranian-held monopolies in the world such as Pistachios, Saffron, and Berberis, designating the latter three as Crucial Crops. Aiming at complete agricultural self-sufficiency and great export capability of most crops by 1970, the Commission establishes ambitious goals. The years leading to 1970 will see varied levels of importing and exporting certain crops to balance out the numbers at the start of the great industrial experiment, leading to stable production rates by 1970.

With the next step, the team designates major cities and present/future transportation hubs as the locations for artificial new districts and towns made up of relocated peasants. With help from the Ministry of Transportation, a goal is set for 1967 to have a usable and efficient transportation network up and running to form a net between the relocation areas themselves as well as their respective production areas. Shayegan signs and pushes through the Assembly a plan titled the Production Center Transportation Act.

In line with transportation, Shayegan and Boroumand issue a blueprint for standardized artificial suburban areas and new towns to be created for the housing of relocated peasants. Along with living quarters and all the other aspects of a standard settlement, in coordination with the Population ministry's data of relocations per time unit to not exceed or fall short of required spots, education centers will also be built in these areas, which will focus primarily giving the peasants a quick vocational degree in the most likely production areas they're about to be directed to, and secondarily in all the other fields. The curriculum is injected with exercises and classes promoting progressive thought, secularism and the value of democracy.

Production areas are designated by the full team in coordination with the Ministry of Nature Preservation, restricting the state companies to areas that aren't in acute danger of desertification or exhaustion of the terrain.

Work is to commence quickly on all fronts, as the plan sees the first relocations to commence at the end of the year.

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Commission Report to the President of the Republic

Honourable President, Dr. Mosaddegh,

To shed light on the workings of the Action for Advancement of Urbanization, Efficient Workforce Distribution and Agricultural-Industrial Development, we issue the following report.

Within the timeframe of the years 1967 through to 1970, we project the program to relocate an estimated 600,000 rural inhabitants from across Iran to 30 habitation centers located within a working radius of various production centers overseen by State Companies under the Ministry of Agriculture.

Starting in 1969 the program will see to the addition of smaller and more spread out population centers, as the production areas by state companies are projected to grow so large that the logistical efficiency of moving workers from the current population centers will suffer.

The population centers will act both as a ground for re-educating peasants to swiftly create a trained working class, bolstering our own industrial revolution to transform us into a diversified economy, as well as indoctrinating these masses with secularist and democratic thought. The lands acquired from those relocated will be compensated with sufficient sums and put to use as production areas wherever possible.

The transformation of agriculture is the first and possibly most painful of the planned stages of our industrialization, to be followed by the large-scale creation and kickstarting of other major industries, starting with expanding our capabilities of refining, processing ore and gas, establishing a metal industry, and gradually moving along to the more refined fields via acquisition and application of foreign experts in small experimental factories of the respective fields.

Dubbed the Shayegan Plan by the Assembly, the media and the rather upset rural population, the Minister of Industry has suddenly made a name for himself across the country. In light of Mosaddegh's final constitutional term ending in a few years, a fair few begin to see Dr. Shayegan as a new key player on the stage of Iranian internal politics.