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Mohtadi, General Ali Akbar

Interviewer Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Place Annandale, Virginia
Date July 9, 1991
Condition Closed during interviewee's lifetime
Status Complete
Language Persian
Content
Interviewee Details Army Officer and Military Prosecutor; Deputy Prime Minister in General Razmara's Cabinet, 1950.
Abstract Family and education background; on the Siyasi (political) High School in Tehran; recollection of Ali Akbar Davar and his reforms of the judiciary during Reza Shah's rule; reasons for Abdol-Hosein Teymurtash and Davar's deaths; on Reza Shah, his character, and his rule; recollection of prosecuting Reza Shah's niece in the city of Babol; on the armed forces' Judicial Administration; on the trials of Razmara and Gholam Hosein Foruhar in military court; recollections of General Razmara and his premiership; on Razmara's oil policy; on the meeting between Razmara and Mosaddeq; Razmara's relations with the National Front and the imperial court; on Razmara's political ambitions; Razmara's assassination; on Ernest Perron and General Hossein Fardust; on General Qarane'i's coup plot; on the authorship of Twenty Three Years.

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