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Samii, Abdol-Hosein

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

Family and educational background; recollections of student years in New York and meeting with Mohammad Mosaddeq; Mosaddeq’s medical check-up and the physicians’ prognosis; recollections of Prime Minister Hasan Ali Mansur and his efforts at reorienting Iranian politics; higher education planning in Iran and attempts at reversing the brain drain; Shah’s interest in creating modern medical facilities in the country; on the various influences on the Shah’s decision-making; recollections of Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda; on Queen Farah, her social activities and her influence on the Shah; assessment of the Ramsar Educational Conferences.

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Saberi, Pari

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

Reminiscences of childhood in Kerman; political inclinations among high school students of the time; career at the Ministry of Culture and Arts; on continuity and change in the performing arts in Iran; on censorship and its effect on the arts; recollections of theatre productions at Tehran University and the response of students to it; memories of Forugh Farrokhzad; recollections of the Shiraz Art Festival; beginnings of the Revolution of 1978-79; on the life of Iranians in exile.

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Qoreishi, Ahmad

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

Family and educational background; recollections of the intellectual and academic environment in Iranian universities in the 1960s and 1970s; planning for higher education in Iran; reorganization of the National University of Iran; political climate of the Iranian universities in the 1970s; extent of political freedom on the campuses; assessment of the quality of higher education in Iran; on SAVAK’s influence in university campuses; on Parviz Sabeti; on Prime Minister Hoveyda’s leadership style and personal qualities; origins of the idea of the Rastakhiz Party; structure, agenda, and mode of operation of the Party; Prime Minister Hoveyda’s reaction to the Rastakhiz Party; on the Shah’s distrust of the Rastakhiz Party and his efforts to curb its power; recollections of the management of the Rastakhiz Party by its various secretary-generals; extent of the Party’s popularity and success; reasons for the Party’s failure to curb revolutionary mobilization of the masses; on the meeting between the Shah and Karim Sanjabi in 1978; on Amir Asadollah Alam; on the administration of Khorasan Province; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Nurbakhsh, Javad

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

Family background and upbringing; recollections of Kerman; relations between various religious groups in Kerman; on the Ne`matollahi order and history; on becoming a Sufi; succession in the Ne`matollahi order; on Zahiroddowleh and Safi Ali Shah; on the effect of the Revolution on Sufism; Islamic Republic’s policy toward Ne`matollahis; Pahlavi regime’s policy toward Ne`matollahis; on the role of Ne`matollahis in Persian culture; on the role of Ne`matollahis in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-06; the Ne`matollahi order outside Iran; Ne`matollahis’ attitude and policy toward women; on teaching of psychology in Iran.

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Niyazmand, Reza

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

Family and educational background; on industrial development in Iran during the Reza Shah period; German contribution to industrial development in Iran; industrial planning and development in Iran; on the Plan and Budget Organization in the 1950s; Plan and Budget Organization under Abol-Hasan Ebtehaj; industrial planning at the Ministry of Economy; on Ali Naqi Alikhani as Minister of Economy; on the rise of the automobile industry in Iran; on industrial planning and the private sector in Iran; on education of the industrial and business managers in Iran; on the High Economic Council and the role of the Shah therein; balance-sheet of Alikhani’s management of Iran’s economic planning; on the promise and perils of import substitution strategy in industrial development; impact of industrial planning on the Iranian economy and society; extent of infrastructure and capital development during the Pahlavi period; myths and realities of industrial economic development in the Pahlavi period; on the Sarcheshmeh Copper Company; working with the private sector on behalf of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

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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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Mo`tamedi, Qasem

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

Recollections of childhood; studying medicine at Tehran University; career at the Ministry of Health; on the state of hygiene and health in Iran at the time; planning for education in health related matters in Iran; role of foreign advisors in health planning in Iran; work on epidemiology in Iran; various organizations charged with the task of disease control in Iran; planning for medical education in Iran; higher education in Iran; on the Rastakhiz Party, its origins and agenda; roots of the Revolution of 1978-79; on the Shah’s illness; reaction of Iranian political elite to the revolutionary upheaval.

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Mojtahedi, Mohammad Ali

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

Recollections of childhood and early education; descriptions of travelling from northern Iran to Tehran and then to Europe for higher education; recollections of Alborz High School; curriculum and the academic calibre of the high school; role of Alborz in the country’s educational goals and achievements; as the Chancellor of the National University of Iran and Arya Mehr University of Technology; on the achievements of Iran in providing higher education in the sciences and technical fields; on the Shah and various other high ranking government officials.

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Matini, Jalal

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

Family background and childhood; recollections of education at Tehran University; political trends among the youth at the time; teaching career at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; intellectual and political climate of the University; on Iran’s higher education system, and the planning for its further development; recollections of Ali Shari`ati, the issues surrounding his employment at Ferdowsi University, local government authorities’ support of Shari`ati against the University, and Shari`ati’s record as a teacher at the University; recollections of the various governors of Khorasan; relations between the University and the various social strata in Mashhad; memories of the revolutionary upheaval; relations between Ferdowsi University and the countries neighboring Iran.

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Khoza’i, Bahram

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

Recollections of childhood; beginning political activity in Shiraz; memories of Ayatollah Dastgheib; joining CIS in U.S.; CIS’s agenda and activities; on the Pahlavi University; on Shiraz in the 1970s; covert political activities in Shiraz; relations between the left and liberal opposition to the Shah; on the reasons for the radicalization of political dissent in Iran; on the revolutionary movement in Shiraz; on the formation of the National Organization of Iranian University Teachers (Sazeman-e Melli-ye Daneshgahiyan-e Iran); clashes between the left and the religious factions after the Revolution; encounters with the revolutionary guards; on the take-over of the Pahlavi University by clerical elements.

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