Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Vaziri, Shahrokh

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Educational background; association with the National Front while at high school; structure of the National Front in the 1960s; reaction of the National Front to the events of 1963-64; emergence and growth of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS); on the various ideological orientations in CIS; radicalization of CIS; contacts between CIS and foreign political organizations; funding, organization and publications of CIS; CIS’s relations with Ayatollah Khomeini; internal differences in CIS and its consequences; CIS’s relations with Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr and the Mojahedin; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79; recollections of arrest and interrogation by SAVAK; on the Parviz Nikkhah group and its activities; on the events of 1963-64, Ayatollah Khomeini, General Teymur Bakhtiyar and the political climate of that period.

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Tiger, M. Gordon

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Recollections of early experiences with Iran in the 1950s; on the working of the U.S. Embassy in Iran in the 1950s and early 1960s; Iranian economy in the 1950s; impact of the events of 1953 on U.S.-Iranian relations; on the Point Four Program in Iran; CIA’s assessment of the opposition to the Shah in the 1960s; relations between Iran and Israel in the 1950s; U.S.-Iranian relations in the 1950s; on Secretary McNamara’s position on arms sales to Iran; on Ambassadors Wailes and Holmes; Robert Kennedy’s meeting with student dissidents and its effect on U.S.-Iranian relations; U.S. policy towards Iran in the 1960s; U.S. contacts with Iranian opposition groups; U.S. aid to Iran in the 1960s; on the Shah’s threat to purchase arms from the Soviet Union; effect of the White Revolution on Iranian politics and U.S.-Iranian relations.

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Showkat, Parviz

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Activities and agenda of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS); proceedings and structure of CIS congresses; political objectives of CIS; CIS constitution and its aims.

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Shakeri, Ali

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

Educational and family background; early political career; formation and working of Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS); operations of National Front in Europe; early members and congresses of CIS; interactions between CIS and political activists in Iran; radicalization of CIS; on Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr and his role in CIS proceedings; internal dynamics and ideological divisions of CIS; activities of the National Front in Europe during the Revolution; on Karim Sanjabi’s trip to Europe and negotiations with Khomeini; assessment of the political activities of the National Front since 1953; on the evolution of CIS and the influences that affected its course.

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Royce, William

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

Family and educational background; reasons for going to Iran; teaching at the Iran-America Society in Tehran; life in Tehran in early 1960s; attitude of Iranian students toward Americans; recollections of personalities and political events during Ali Amini’s premiership in the early 1960s; on the events of 1963-64 and their effect on the change in the political atmosphere in the late 1960s; impressions of various Iranian cities–Ramsar, Esfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad; on opposition student leaders in the U.S. in early 1960s–Majid Tehranian, Sadeq Qotbzadeh and others; on Iran-America Society in Shiraz.

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Oskui, Nader

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:02 +0000

Family and educational background; recollections of events of 1963-64; on joining the CIS in the U.S.; CIS activities in the U.S. in the 1970s; on the radicalization of CIS; organization and financial base of CIS; factionalism in CIS; on Sazeman-e Ehya as a student organization; on student activism in Europe in the 1970s, problems with the French police, and charges of assassination brought against him; meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris; return to Iran and participation in the Revolution.

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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

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

Family background; recollections of childhood and educational history; teaching at Tehran University; as Dean of Faculty of Letters of Tehran University; teaching at the American University of Beirut and at Harvard university; on problems that confronted Iranian universities; on Ali-Naqi Alikhani as Chancellor of Tehran University; on the academic agenda and calibre of Arya Mehr University of Technology and the problems facing that University; sources of the political unrest in the Iranian universities; role of the leftist and Islamic groups in student activism; impressions of the Shah and his religious beliefs; role of religion in the Iranian polity and society; rejuvenation of Iranian culture in the 1970s; cultural relations between Iran and other countries; on the personal traits of Queen Farah; on the Iranian political elite; recollections of Iran’s important religio-cultural figures; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79; recollections of the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Motahhari, and Ali Shari`ati.

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Mokhateb-Rafi`i, General Habibollah

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

Family background; recollections of the elementary school days with young Crown Prince Mohammad Reza; on the Crown Prince as a child and as fellow student; joining the armed forces; recollections of Iran’s occupation during WWII; on General Mohammad Shahbakhti; on General Shahbakhti’s suppression of the Qashqa’is and British intervention on the latter’s behalf; on the development of the Iranian armed forces and their absorption of modern technology; on Generals Mohammad Vali Qarane’i, Abdollah Hedayat and Ahmad Vosuq; on the Codes and Communications Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on problems within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on the Iranian Embassy in Washington; on Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi; on the character of reports sent to Tehran; on Bakhtiyar’s premiership and his choice of General Fereydun Jam to head the Ministry of War; on the take-over of the Iranian Embassy in Washington by revolutionary forces; on the Embassy’s policy toward the opposition in the U.S.; SAVAK’s operations in the U.S.

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Mohamedi, Hamid

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

Family and educational background; early political activities; National Front in the 1960s; background of the establishment of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS); structure and political program of CIS; relations between CIS and the Tudeh Party; relations between the various constituencies of CIS; government’s reaction to student activism; emergence of radicalism in CIS; impact of events of 1963-64; on the plan to assassinate the Shah.

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Kowsari, Hamid

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:53 +0000

Family and educational background; beginnings of politcal activity in Iran; on the National Front’s protests of 1959-60; on student activism in the U.S.; on the consolidation of CIS in the U.S.; history of CIS–differences between CIS organization and leadership in U.S. and in Europe; early ideological orientation of CIS in the U.S.; early factions in CIS in the U.S.; radicalization of CIS in the U.S.; on tensions in the National Front in Iran in 1964-65; on Mostafa Chamran; on the division of students between the left and the Islamic forces; structure and working of CIS; changes in CIS in the 1970s; ideological factors affecting factionalism in CIS; Iranian government and CIS; CIS in Europe; on the CIS break-up; CIS and the Islamic revolution.

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