Abstract

Family and educational background; recollections of the Officers’ Training College; recollections of the military campaigns against the Bakhtiyari tribes in Esfahan; recollections of Generals Teymur Bakhtiyar, Hosein Azmudeh and Abdollah Hedayat; on corruption in the armed forces; relations between the armed forces and the Pan-Iranist Party; on the idea of creating a “national resistance movement” against possible future foreign occupation; on the dismissal of General Abdollah Hedayat and other generals in the 1960s; on the battle of Semirom; on judicial structure and process in the military; on the trial of the Tudeh officers; on the events of 1953; on Generals Fazlollah Zahedi, Hasan Arfa` and Haji Ali Razmara; trial of separatist elements in Azarbayjan; on SAVAK and military intelligence; on General Kiya; serving as military attache in Baghdad; serving with CENTO; structure of the armed forces; arms procurement; on Generals Mohammad Khatami and Hasan Tufaniyan; armed forces in the months before the Revolution; on the Bakhtiyar government; on the armed forces’ declaration of neutrality in February 1979; armed forces in the months after the Revolution.