Afkhami, Gholam Reza

Interviewer	Homayun Majd and Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Place	Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland
Date	September 1982 and June 1990
Condition	Open
Status	Complete
Language	Persian
Content	73pp. + summary + biographical note + index + photograph
Interviewee Details	Professor, College of Economics and Political Science, National (Melli) University of Iran, 1967-1979, Associate Dean, 1970-1974; Deputy Minister of Interior, 1974-1975; Secretary-General,Iranian National Committee for World Literacy Program,1975-79.
Abstract	Family and educational background; student politics in Tehran in the 1940s and early 1950s; on Mosaddeq's premiership and the nationalization of oil; role of leftists, nationalists and religious elements in the nationalization of oil movement; character and extent of socioeconomic development of Iran during the last twenty years of the Shah's regime; factors important in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79; on the Rastakhiz Party; 1975 parliamentary elections under Rastakhiz; on Prime Minister Hoveyda's tenure of office; working with Jamshid Amuzegar in the Ministry of Interior; theory, strategy and organization of Iranian national campaign against illiteracy; on the debates over the issues of decentralization of power and political participation in Iran in the 1970s; on the Shah's character traits; on the Revolution.

Interviewer

Homayun Majd and Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr

Place

Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland

Date

September 1982 and June 1990

Condition

Open

Status

Complete

Language

Persian

Content

73pp. + summary + biographical note + index + photograph

Interviewee Details

Professor, College of Economics and Political Science, National (Melli) University of Iran, 1967-1979, Associate Dean, 1970-1974; Deputy Minister of Interior, 1974-1975; Secretary-General,Iranian National Committee for World Literacy Program,1975-79.

Abstract

Family and educational background; student politics in Tehran in the 1940s and early 1950s; on Mosaddeq's premiership and the nationalization of oil; role of leftists, nationalists and religious elements in the nationalization of oil movement; character and extent of socioeconomic development of Iran during the last twenty years of the Shah's regime; factors important in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79; on the Rastakhiz Party; 1975 parliamentary elections under Rastakhiz; on Prime Minister Hoveyda's tenure of office; working with Jamshid Amuzegar in the Ministry of Interior; theory, strategy and organization of Iranian national campaign against illiteracy; on the debates over the issues of decentralization of power and political participation in Iran in the 1970s; on the Shah's character traits; on the Revolution.

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