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Ramsbotham, Sir Peter

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:36 +0000

Recollections of the events of 1953; on the attitude of Iranians towards the British; relations between Iran and Great Britain in the 1970s; on the Shah’s personal traits; Shah’s sensitivity to British views; Iran’s position on the Persian Gulf in the early 1970s; on various Iranian government officials; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79; impact of westernization on Iranian politics; on the Twenty Five Hundred Years of Monarchy Celebrations; on Britain’s refusal to admit the Shah into Britain after the Revolution.

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Mosaddeqi, Taqi

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:25 +0000

Educational and family background; employment with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC); structure and operations of AIOC; on the development of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC); on the National Iranian Gas Company and its operations; recollections of the leading managers of NIOC; changes in the structure and operations of NIOC following the rise in the price of oil; technological and economic linkages between NIOC operations and the industrial sector of the economy; assessment of the organizational and operational procedures at NIOC; impact of Iran’s gas industry on the other economic sectors; on the negotiations with the Soviet Union over the sale of gas; assessment of Iran’s economic development policies; on the balance-sheet of the Plan and Budget Organization; on decision making in Iran’s economic sector; relations between industries and government organizations and ministries.

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Farkhan, Hushang

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:08:37 +0000

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.

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Avery, Peter

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:09:01 +0000

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.

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