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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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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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