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Ziya’i, Taher

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

Recollections of childhood and family background; reminiscences of education at Alborz High School; recollections of education in Germany during WWII; beginning entrepreneurial activities; recollections of the events of 1953; recollections of personal encounters with the leading members of the National Front; memory of conversations with Bazargan following the Revolution and Bazargan’s comment on Ayatollah Khomeini; working of the Ministry of Industries and Mines; reminiscences of Ja`far Sharif-Emami, Ali Amini, and Amir Asadollah Alam; origins of industrial planning in Iran; recollections of events leading to the fall of the first Sharif-Emami government; on the formation of the Pahlavi Foundation; working and objectives of the Foundation; on the early months of the Revolution of 1978-79 and the pressure to force the resignation of various government officials; on the implementation of the edicts of the White Revolution and its impact on Iranian industries; on the land reform program and the role of Hasan Arsanjani in its implementation; structure and operation of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce; recollections of the proceedings of the High Economic Council; on industrial planning in Iran, its determinants and its results; on government’s anti-inflation campaign and the emergence of political discontent; personal experiences with the Revolution; on the causes of the Revolution.

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Valiyan, Abdol-Azim

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

Educational background and early career; recollections of intelligence gathering activities and analysis in the military; reminiscences of service under General Riyahi; recollections of activities as the Director of the Land Reform Organization; interaction of various government agencies over the land reform issue; on the implementation of the land reform program; creation of a Land Reform Ministry and management of the land reform program; recollections of the meetings of the High Economic Council; impressions of the Shah and his leadership style; tenure as Governor of Khorasan.

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Sepehri, Hosein

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

Educational background; employment at the Plan and Budget Organization; recollections of Abol-Hasan Ebtehaj at the Organization; agricultural planning at the Organization; agricultural development plans at regional levels; on Seyyed Jalal Tehrani’s opposition to land reform; assessment of the effects of the land reform of 1963; on the working of the High Economic Council; on the rivalry between various governmental organizations for funds and resources; pattern of change in development funding and projects from the 1960s onwards; relations between the Shah and cabinet ministers; balance-sheet of agricultural development planning; recollections of Mansur Rowhani.

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Mahmudi, Kambiz

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

Recollections of childhood in Kerman; memories of life in Mashhad under Soviet occupation; employment with the Point Four Program; recollections of the National Front and the Tudeh Party and their activities; beginnings of Iran’s television broadcasting; early years of the television industry in Iran; television and government policy; television and the land reform; creation of the National Iranian Radio and Television Organization (NIRT); relations between NIRT and the U.S. armed forces’ television; structure, mode of operation and agenda of NIRT; Reza Qotbi’s leadership at NIRT; NIRT’s program development; NIRT’s general outlook and its political implications; influence of the left in NIRT; news analysis at NIRT; educational television in Iran and its impact; NIRT and the revolutionary upheaval.

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Jahanshahi, Gholam-Hossein

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

Family and educational background; practice of law in Iran and involvement in political activities; election to the Majles; on land reform, America’s role in it, and the Shah’s handling of opposition to it; on the character and leadership style of the Shah; Shah’s views on economic development; on Arsanjani and his role in the land reform program; recollections of Asadollah Alam’s premiership; working with Princess Ashraf; on the events of 1963-64; on the increasing consolidation of political power in the Shah’s hands; on the origin and workings of the Pahlavi Foundation; Iran’s economic concerns in the 1970s; internal criticisms of government’s economic policies in the late-1970s; on Amuzegar’s premiership; incarceration prior as well as following the Revolution of 1978-79; recollections of the conditions in Qasr and Evin prisons following the Revolution; on trials, executions and confiscations of property; escape from Iran.

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Bolster, Archie*

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

Recollections of childhood in Iran; U.S. Consulate in Tabriz and its functions; on the state of the agricultural sector in the 1950s and after the land reform in the 1960s; assessment of the White Revolution of 1963; workings of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran; extent of intelligence gathering by the Embassy; debates over the political future of Iran at the Embassy; U.S. Embassy and the National Front; contacts between the Embassy and the clergy in the 1960s; on the events of 1963-64; U.S. policy towards Iran; assessment of CIA operations in Iran; on the Shah and his leadership style; on the conclusions presented in James Bill’s The Eagle and the Lion; U.S.-Iranian strategic relations; U.S. policy-making on Iran.

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Bahar, Habib

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

Family background; on the political activities of the Bahar family; recollections of Reza Shah’s relations with his subordinates; employment with the Point IV Program in Khorasan; on Khorasan Governors Ahmad Mehran and General Sadeq Amir Azizi; on the state of rural development in Iran; balance-sheet of the land reform program; on the religious establishment and land reform; causes of the events of 1963-64; recollections of Ali Shari`ati, Mas`ud Rajavi and Taher Ahmadzadeh; conversations with Shari`ati and Mas`ud Rajavi; on the functioning of the Majles; recollections of Mozaffar Baqa’i-Kermani; memories of meeting with General Gholam Reza Azhari following his premiership; on General Abbas Qarabaghi and Jamshid Amuzegar; reactions in the Majles to the Revolution; personal experiences with the politics of the Revolution in Mashhad; Majles’ review of SAVAK in 1978; on the causes of the Revolution; meeting with the Shah prior to the monarch’s departure from Iran in 1979; on Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i, Shaykh Ali Tehrani and Ayatollah Va`ez-e Tabasi.

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Ansari, Abdolreza

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

Recollections of childhood, family and education; on meeting Director William Warne of the Point IV Program; Point IV operations in Iran; on young Iranians’ contributions to Point IV and other development projects; on phasing out of the Point IV; on Iran-e No group; on Mohammad Moqaddam and Jamshid Amuzegar in the Iran-e No group; on Fakhreddin Shademan and Khalil Taleqani; as treasurer general; Iran’s economic and financial conditions before the White Revolution of 1963; streamlining the Ministry of Finance and the national budget; as Minister of Labor; on Manuchehr Eqbal as prime minister; on the Khuzestan Water and Power Authority: background, structure, operations, accomplishments; on David Lillienthal; as governor of Khuzestan; on Hasan Ali Mansur as leader of the Progressive Circle (Kanun-e Moteraqqi) and as prime minister; on the Shah’s support for development projects; as Minister of Interior; national elections of l967; on the problems with the Iran Novin Party; on relations with Prime Minister Hoveyda; on Ardeshir Zahedi; on the circumstances of leaving the Ministry of Interior; on the celebrations of the 2500 years of Iranian Monarchy; as Princess Ashraf’s deputy in socio-cultural affairs; as managing director of the Imperial Organization for Social Services.

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Amini, Ali

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

Joining Mosaddeq’s cabinet; Mosaddeq’s views on monarchy and his feelings for the Shah; Mosaddeq’s personal traits; relations between Ahmad Qavam and Mohammad Mosaddeq; oil and Iranian politics; on the events of 1953; on General Fazlollah Zahedi; negotiations over the oil consortium agreement; relations between the Shah and General Zahedi; Shah’s personal traits; events leading to his premiership; personal relations with the Shah; on President John F. Kennedy’s support for his premiership; an assessment of the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the state; Shah’s views on military budget and arms procurement policies; on the origins of the land reform program of 1963 and its consequences; U.S.’s position on the land reform issue; on Hasan Arsanjani; on the events of 1963-64; on the Shah’s decision-making in the months leading to the Revolution; politics of choosing a prime minister in the months preceding the Revolution; role of the military in the revolutionary ordeal; on the Shah’s illness; crises created by the Shah’s close associates; President Jimmy Carter’s position on Iran’s revolutionary situation; Shah’s aversion to the use of force in situations of crisis; on Hoveyda’s premiership; on OPEC, the Arabs, the Iranian armed forces, and the future of Iran.

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Afshar-Qasemlu, Amir Aslan

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

Childhood years and educational background; WWII years in Germany; employment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the mission in the Netherlands; memories of Mohammad Mosaddeq and his aides; on the White Revolution and U.S.’s role in Iran’s Land Reform; as Ambassador to Austria, U.S. and West Germany; on the regime’s critics and the Confederation of Iranian Students in the U.S.; on the West’s attitude towards Iran’s economic development; as Grand Master of ceremonies of the Imperial Court; on General Azhari’s appointment as prime minister; on the Shah’s last public speech; Shah’s attitude towards General Ziaul-Haq of Pakistan; Zolfaqar Ali Bhutto’s message to the Shah; Shah’s intercession on Bhetto’s behalf; on the Shah’s last meeting with Iranian politians; on the Shah’s decision to leave Iran; on the Shah’s illness and state of mind; Queen Farah’s influence on the Shah; recollections of the Shah’s stay in Egypt, Morocco and Panama; Shah’s impressions of various world leaders; on oil and oil prices; on the Shah’s personal contacts with the Iranian public; recollections of the Crown Prince Reza’s stay in Morocco; on the Shah’s last days in Egypt; Shah’s personal traits; on the West’s role in Iran’s political upheavals.

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