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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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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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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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Jafrudi, Kazem

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

Recollections of childhood, education history, and early career; recollections of Iran during the Reza Shah period; trials and tribulations of early political career; recollections of trial and imprisonment for political activities; on Iranian politics during the Pahlavi era; memories of Tehran University; evolution of academic standards at the University; on the Tudeh Party and its activities; on the gradual politicization of Tehran University; recollection of various chancellors of the University; reasons for growth of dissent in university campuses in Iran; balance-sheet of higher education planning in Iran; on meetings with various political leaders in 1978-79; on the working of Ministry of Science and Higher Education; recollections of employment at the Central Bank of Iran; on construction contracting in Iran; on the pattern of city planning and development in Iran; policy-making in the National Front in 1978-79; beginnings of the National Front; recollections of the Shah, Mosaddeq and other Iranian political leaders; membership in the Mardom Party; recollections of the Majles; on the meetings between army commanders and opposition leaders in 1979 prior to the Revolution; on the Bakhtiyar premiership; National Front and the Revolution; on General Naser Moqaddam; on General Abbas Qarabaghi and the decision to neutralize the armed forces; role of Mehdi Bazargan in shaping the course of events; recollections of Ayatollah Beheshti and his relations with the National Front; recollections of events following the Iranian Revolution and reminiscences of hiding, incarceration, and subsequent escape from Iran; National Front activities after the Revolution.

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Etemad, Akbar

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

Family background; education and childhood in Hamadan; membership in Tudeh Party; structure and activities of the Tudeh Party’s youth groups; recollections of student activism in Europe; joining the faculty of Tehran University; higher education planning at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education under Minister Majid Rahnema; balance-sheet of the Ministry’s activities; on the Shah and his approach to debate among the various planners; on the Ramsar Educational Conferences; on the character and leadership style of the Shah; creation of the Bu-Ali University; on the decision to form the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran; planning and operating nuclear power plants in Iran; effect of the Atomic Energy Organization on the national economy; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Behnam, Jamshid

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

Recollections of childhood; reminiscences of literary figures of the 1940s and 1950s; education at Tehran University; memories of Prime Minister Mansur’s Progressive Circle (Kanun-e Moteraqqi); work at the Plan and Budget Organization; establishing the Institute of Social Studies and Research of Tehran University; on the introduction of the discipline of sociology to the university curricula in Iran; activities of the Institute of Social Studies and Research; on economic planning in Iran; on the government’s views on cultural development in Iran; assessment of the activities of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; cultural and political trends at Tehran University in the 1970s; westernism in the universities; recollections of the famous professors of Tehran University; on the Ramsar Educational Conferences; planning for the Farabi University; on Iran’s activities at UNESCO.

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Arndt, Richard*

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

Impressions of Iran’s political and cultural climate in the 1960s; organization and functions of the U.S. Embassy in Iran; recollections of the ambassadorships of Armin Meyer and Douglas MacArthur III; on the debate over arms sales to Iran in the late 1960s; impressions of the Shah and other leading Iranian political and cultural figures; extent of awareness of the U.S. Embassy of the workings of Iranian politics; on cultural relations between Iran and the U.S.; balance-sheet of USIA’s operations in Iran; on the state of higher education in Iran during the 1970s; on the Fulbright Program in Iran; on the nature of U.S.-Iranian relations.

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Afkhami, Gholam Reza

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

Family and educational background; student politics in Tehran in the 1940s and early 1950s; on Mosaddeq’s premiership and the nationalization of oil; role of leftists, nationalists and religious elements in the nationalization of oil movement; character and extent of socioeconomic development of Iran during the last twenty years of the Shah’s regime; factors important in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79; on the Rastakhiz Party; 1975 parliamentary elections under Rastakhiz; on Prime Minister Hoveyda’s tenure of office; working with Jamshid Amuzegar in the Ministry of Interior; theory, strategy and organization of Iranian national campaign against illiteracy; on the debates over the issues of decentralization of power and political participation in Iran in the 1970s; on the Shah’s character traits; on the Revolution.

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