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Interview with Farkhan, Hushang

Date

April 26, May 23 and August 8, 1983

Location

Washington, D.C.

Interviewer

Aqevil, Ardeshir

Language

Persian

Abstract

Educational background and remembrances of travel to the U.S. for education; recollections of activities of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; formation of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC); assessment of the merits of the oil contracts entered into by NIOC; on the nationalization of oil and the assassination of Prime Minister Razmara; technical concerns surrounding the nationalization issue; natural gas agreement with the Soviet Union; on NIOC Managing Directors Abdollah Entezam and Manuchehr Eqbal; workings of NIOC; security concerns in oil operations in Iran; policy-making process in the NIOC; on the Shah’s interest in NIOC operations; on oil and the Revolution; assessment of industrial planning in Iran in the Pahlavi period; Shah’s role in the OPEC and its pricing policy; role of oil in the foreign policy of Iran.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Transcripts

Houshang-Farkhan-APt-I Houshang-Farkhan-BPt-II

Contents

69pp. + summary + biographical note + index

About the interviewee

Farkhan, Hushang

Director of Operations and Member of the Board of Governors of the National Iranian Oil Company, 1960-1979.