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Interview with Avery, Peter

Date

February 9 and 10, 1985

Location

Cambridge, England

Interviewer

Assar (Guppy), Shusha

Language

English

Abstract

Educational background; employment at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; relations between AIOC and the Iranian government; Iranian intellectuals in the 1940s; recollections of Sadeq Hedayat, Sadeq Chubak, Bozorg Alavi and Seyyed Sadeq Goharin; on the Tudeh Party and its influence in the 1950s; meetings with Seyyed Ziyaoddin Tabataba’i, General Teymur Bakhtiyar, Mozaffar Baqa’i-Kermani and Hosein Makki; on the leadership of the National Front; on the events of 1953 and the premiership of General Fazlollah Zahedi; on Mojtaba Minovi and Parviz Natel Khanlari; recollections of Abol-Hasan Ebtehaj, General Vali Mohammad Qarane’i, Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Jamshid Amuzegar, Ali Amini and Amir Asadollah Alam; on the White Revolution and the celebrations for the 2500 years of Iranian monarchy; on the role of religion in politics; on contemporary Iranian literature; on social change in Iran during the Pahlavi period.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Transcripts

Peter-Avery-APt-I Peter-Avery-BPt-II Peter-Avery-CPt-III Peter-Avery-DPt-IV Peter-Avery-EPt-V Peter-Avery-FPt-VI

Contents

161pp. + biographical note + index

About the interviewee

Avery, Peter

Professor at Cambridge University.