Behzad Nabavi's memory of the highest salaries of ministers in the sixties

  The highest salaries in heavy industries at that time for the largest CEOs of the largest factories such as Arak Machinery, Azarab, Iran Khodro, etc. was a maximum of 30 thousand Tomans.  It used to be less.

The salary of the ministers was 7 thousand tomans.  We used to say that we live with unseen help;  What does that mean?  It means that something goes missing in our house every day.  We would take it and sell it to Samsari. 
I was responsible for relations with Türkiye in the government.  Mr. Turgut Özal, the Prime Minister of Türkiye at the time, gave me a leather bag made in Türkiye.  From these luggage bags, we brought this to Iran.  One year, our situation deteriorated so much that we sold it for eight thousand tomans to cover some expenses.

Of course, let's not forget that they said then and they say now that Behzad Nabavi is the ninth richest man in Iran.  The price of curtains in his house is 9 million tomans.  9 million was not a small thing at that time.  Neighbors used to come and ring the bell of our house.  Our house was in Saadat Abad.  I went to open the door and saw that some people were with them.  They said that these are our guests, they heard the rumors, they want to see your life.  I was saying, come on.  Sometimes they returned right away.

I had a house whose land was bought by my mother in 1934 for 2,300 Tomans.  At that time, Saadat Abad was outside the city.  My mother had just bought the land in installments, which I used to take one hundred tomans a month to the National Bank and put it into the account.  It was out of bounds until long after the revolution. 
In 1961, they gave permission to build it, and we built it with loans and the help of friends who had a little more money than us.  I had a partner when we had a company together.  Before I went to prison.  He gave me about one million tomans and I arranged the rest.

That I give an example of myself, because I don't have detailed information about others.  But the main conditions of the officials were the same.  There was no person responsible for the position and position and money.  Everyone worked selflessly.

Mr. Mousavi lived in a shanty house that belonged to the prime minister until the end of his tenure as prime minister.  His life was very poor.  My life was much better than the life of engineer Mousavi.