Ali Amini was appointed to rule by decree as the Prime Minister of Iran on 5 May 1961, succeeding Jafar Sharif-Emami.

[2] Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was not enthusiastic about appointing Ali Amini as prime minister.

[3] Though Amini was considered a "maverick aristocrat"[4] and "too independent of the personal control of the monarch",[5] appointment of ministers of foreign affairs, war, the interior was made at the behest of the Shah.

[7] Most controversially, Amini gave three ministries to "middle-class reformers who had in the past criticized the political influence of the shah as well as the corrupt practices of the landed families".

Muhammad Derekhshesh who was as a leader of teacher's trade union drew support from both the Tudeh and the National Front, became the education minister.