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Interview with Borumand, Heydar-Qoli

Date

August 6, 1985

Location

Moraga, California

Interviewer

Afkhami, Mahnaz

Language

Persian

Abstract

On the structure and activities of the Iran Novin Party; on the influence of the Iran Novin Party on Iranian politics; workings of the Majles; on the Party’s influence in Esfahan; on the causes of the Revolution; on the 1978 Majles debates on SAVAK; recollection of a meeting with General Hosein Fardust in 1979; Shapur Bakhtiyar’s premiership and the Majles; confronting the revolutionary committees; incarceration, interrogation and trial by the revolutionary authorities; escape from Iran.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Transcripts

Heydar-Qoli-Borumand-APt-I.pdf Heydar-Qoli-Borumand-English.pdf

Contents

46pp. + summary + biographical note + index + photograph

About the interviewee

Borumand, Heydar-Qoli

Physician; Deputy Secretary-General of the Iran Novin Party, 1967-1977; Majles Deputy, 1963-1979.