Esfahani offered direct public access to his office, in other words, "simply sat on the floor of his office, opened the door, and handled the problems and grievances of the barefoot peasants".[5] He proposed a land reform program, eponymously known as "Esfahani's Land-reform", that brought private ownership of land under question.[6] The Revolutionary Council introduced it in April 1980, which "limited land ownership by small-scale farmers to three times the acreage sufficient to support a peasant family" and transferred mechanized farms to cooperative farms.[6] Landowners strongly stood against the plan and accused Esfahani of being a communist and conservative pro-land ulema questioned Esfahani's understanding of Islam.[7] Eventually Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the land reform to be stopped.[8]
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^Stanford M. Lyman, ed. (2016), Social Movements: Critiques, Concepts, Case-studies, Springer, p. 272, ISBN9781349237470
^Intercontinental Press Combined with Inprecor, vol. 18, 1980, p. 730
^MacLachlan, Keith S. (1989). Internal Migration in Iran. Centre of Near & Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. p. 20.
^Ali Farazmand, ed. (2009), Bureaucracy and Administration, CRC Press, p. 600, ISBN9781420015225
^ abValibeigi, Mehrdad (September 1993), "Islamic Economics and Economic Policy Formation in Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Critique", Journal of Economic Issues, 27 (3): 793–812, doi:10.1080/00213624.1993.11505455, JSTOR4226719
^Moaddel, Mansoor (August 1991), "Class Struggle in Post-Revolutionary Iran", International Journal of Middle East Studies, 23 (3): 317–343, doi:10.1017/S0020743800056324, JSTOR164485
^Parsa, Misagh (1989). Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution. Rutgers University Press. p. 160. ISBN9780230115620.
