In the military cabinet formed by Gholam Reza Azhari Rabii served as an acting minister of housing briefly from November to December 1978. However, Hassan Toufanian, deputy defense minister, and Rabii did not cooperate with Azhari arguing that the prime minister had assigned mostly army officers as cabinet members.
In addition, both Toufanian and Rabii tended to carry out a coup to stabilize the turmoil in the country, but their idea was not backed by other senior military officials, including General Abbas Gharabaghi. Rabii himself was not so enthusiastic to materialize his hardliner views without getting support from the Shah.
