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Discussing Iran’s shattered economy, Millspaugh’s book sympathetically portrayed Iran and
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Millspaugh managed to implement a number of reforms, including a new taxation law that hit the poor hard but financed Reza Shah’s Trans-Iranian
Railway project, which got underway in 1927. The mission’s accomplishments were repeatedly hampered by internal political rivalries in
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with seesawing political orientations (with 11 prime ministers between 1941 and 1946). The financial mission under
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