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Hashemi-Nejad, General Mohsen

Interviewer Marvin Zonis and Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Place Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland
Date March 23, 1982; April 12 and 19, and May 3 and 17, 1989
Condition Closed until 2009
Status Complete
Language Persian
Content 55pp. + summary + biographical note + index + photograph
Interviewee Details Army Officer; Commander of Imperial Guard Division, 1970-1974; Chief of the Commander-in-Chief's Military Headquarters (Saray-e Nezami) 1974-1979.
Abstract Personal background; decision to join the military; recollections of the military's efforts to subdue the Qashqa'i tribe; reminiscences of the Officers Training College; on the structure of the Iranian armed forces; recollections of the Iranian military commanders, Generals Hedayat, Ariyana, Khatami, Jam, and Oveysi; history, structure and duties of the Imperial Guard; relations between the Shah and the Iranian armed forces in general and the Imperial Guards in particular; performance of the Imperial Guard; decision to use the Imperial Guard in the events of 1963-64; role of religion in the armed forces; on the character and leadership style of the Shah; recollections of an assassination attempt against the Shah; on the Shah's illness and its effect on his decisions; military and the Revolution of 1978-79; Shah's reaction to military commanders' desire for confrontation with the revolutionaries; on the role of the U.S. in the Revolution; on General Huyser's mission to Iran.

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