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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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Nateq, Homa

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

Recollections of childhood and family background; education and later career at Tehran University; on the intelligentsia in the 1960s and the 1970s; political dissent and human rights activities; circumstances of and motives for attack on her by security forces during a demonstration; balance-sheet of the activities of leftist forces during the Pahlavi period; on the role and functions of SAVAK; reflection on her own political career and a reexamination of political conditions in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s; on activities of political groups in exile; on the future of Iran.

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Mohaqqeqi, General Ahmad Ali

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

Recollections of childhood and early career; employment with SAVAK; recollections of Generals Teymur Bakhtiyar and Hasan Pakravan; on General Bakhtiyar’s removal from SAVAK; on SAVAK’s mode of operation; on the events of 1963-64, and General Pakravan’s intercession with the Shah on behalf of Ayatollah Khomeini; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79; on the top echelon of the military’s mismanagement of the political crisis of 1978-79; recollection of the debates within the armed forces on the choice of action to quell the civil unrest; on how revolutionary forces took control of the cities; on the armed forces’ decision to declare itself neutral; on charges of collusion between a number of the military commanders and the revolutionary forces; on General Gholam Ali Oveysi’s activities in exile and plans for an armed opposition to the revolutionary order; on the structure and mode of operation of the State Gendarmerie.

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Madani, Admiral Seyyed Ahmad

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

Educational and family history; reasons for leaving the Iranian Navy; recollections of the structure and operations of the Iranian Navy; political climate in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s; recollections of the revolutionary movement in the late 1970s; Iranian Navy after the Revolution; Palestinian agitations in Khuzestan after the Revolution; clergy’s monopolization of power in Iran; reflections on meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini and clashes with Ayatollah Beheshti; on the first presidential elections and the clergy’s active favoring of Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr; power politics in post-revolutionary Iran.

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Kazemiyyeh, Eslam

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:08:15 +0000

Family and educational background; activism in the Tudeh Party; structure and mode of operation of the Tudeh Party; divisions within the Tudeh Party; recollections of Khalil Maleki and the Third Force Party; Iran’s intellectual and artistic climate in the 1960s and the 1970s; political organization among Iranian writers; Prime Minister Alam’s co-optation of Tudeh activists; on Amini’s premiership; on the events of 1963-64, and their political implications; on social change in Iran; political activities of the dissident groups in the 1970s; roots of the religious establishment’s alienation from the Pahlavi state; on the intellectuals and bureaucrats’ support for the Revolution; personal encounters with the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamene’i; reminiscences of Ali Shari`ati; politics in Iran after the Revolution; on meetings between Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr and Ardeshir Zahedi; government’s reaction to revolutionary upheaval; reasons for leaving Iran.

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Homayun, Daryush

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:08:15 +0000

Recollections of childhood; political activism among Iranian youth in the 1940s; nationalism in Iran during the Reza Shah period; establishing the Ayandegan Daily; government restrictions on the operation of newspapers; reminiscences of the activities of the Franklin Institute in Tehran; on the formation of a writers’ association; on the nature and extent of political socialization of Iranians during the Pahlavi period; changes in the political orientation of Iranians during the late Pahlavi period; on Hoveyda’s premiership; origins, workings and agenda of the Rastakhiz Party; premiership of Jamshid Amuzegar; on Ettela`at Newspaper’s inflammatory article against Ayatollah Khomeini in 1977; recollections of the Iranian political scene in the months leading to the Revolution.

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Firuz, Mozaffar

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

Recollections of politics during the Reza Shah period; Reza Shah’s relations with Nosratdowleh Firuz; on the Mosaddeq premiership; on taking political action against the Pahlavi regime; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79 and the future of Iran.

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Assar, Naser

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

On the history of Persian painting and its evolution; recollections of childhood; reminiscences of his father and the sociocultural climate in which he grew up; memories of Tehran University; political trends among the youth; association with the Tudeh Party; intellectual circles in Tehran; developing interest in painting; education in the arts; on the new trends in Persian painting and the synthesis between Persian and European artistic trends; dilemmas confronting artists in exile; on changes in Iranian society during the Pahlavi period; royal patronage of the arts in Pahlavi Iran; on the Shiraz Art Festival; on the interaction of art and politics; on the role of the Ministry of Culture and Arts in the development of Persian art.

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Ardalan, Farajollah

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:09:25 +0000

Family background and recollections of childhood; involvement with the National Front politics and association with Karim Sanjabi; recollections of the activities of the National Front following the events of 1953; student years in England and the formation of the first nuclei of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) in Europe; recollections of early organized student political activism in the U.S.; meetings between CIS leaders in the U.S. and Robert Kennedy; on the Khaibar Khan issue in the U.S.; activities of the National Front in the U.S. and Europe; expansion of CIS activities and emergence of factionalism; divisions within the National Front in Iran following Mosaddeq’s letters from Ahmadabad; National Front activities in Algeria; on Ebrahim Yazdi, Sadeq Qotbzadeh, Shahin Fatemi and Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari; on collaboration with Ali Amini and Shahin Fatemi after the Revolution.

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