Political Parties Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Yeganeh, Naser

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

Recollections of childhood and education in Europe and America; on the history, structure and mode of operation of the judiciary in Iran; working of the Ministry of Justice in Iran; place of religion in Iran’s legal code; role of the judiciary in the operation of the government; issue of women’s rights and the reaction of the judiciary to it; on the Family Protection Law and its implementation; observations on the White Revolution; on the Shah, his powers and his leadership style; on the workings of the cabinet; impact of the events of 1953 on later political decisions; on the causes of the Revolution; attitude of the Islamic Republic toward the judiciary; personal experiences with the Islamic Republic and the revolutionary courts.

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Rashti, Mohammad Ali

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

Educational history and early career; recollections of Hasan Ali Mansur’s Progressive Circle; on the White Revolution; on the working of the Majles; continuity and change in parliamentary politics in Iran; reasons for creation of the Rastakhiz Party; recollections of Prime Minister Mosaddeq’s trip to the United Nations; recollections of service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Rambod, Holaku

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

Family background and educational history; on the characteristics of his constituency; recollections of the Majles and its operating procedures; role of the Mardom Party in the Majles; relations between the government and the Majles; confrontations between the Mardom Party and the Hoveyda government; assessment of the Hoveyda premiership; on the leadership in SAVAK; on the events of 1953; recollections of General Qarane’i; recollections of the Rastakhiz Party and the operations of the Majles under the aegis of that Party.

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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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Qasemi, Mehdi Baradaran

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

Family background and early political socialization; joining the Tudeh Party; Party’s structure and method of recruitment; relations between the Tudeh Party and the government between 1941 and 1945; Tudeh Party’s appeal to the youth; internal ideological divisions within the Tudeh Party; intellectual and political climate within the Tudeh Party; role of the intellectuals in the Party; Tudeh Party and the Azarbayjan Crisis of 1945-46; on Khalil Maleki and the balance-sheet of his activities; relations between Tudeh Party and the National Front; on the Tudeh Party cells within the military; on Nureddin Kiyanuri and his leadership of the Party; on Mozaffar Firuz and Ahmad Qavam; government reaction to Tudeh Party’s activities; recollections of imprisonment as a Tudeh activist; on the mode of operation of the Tudeh Party; on the deaths of Lankarani and Ghaffari; on Fereydun Keshavarz’s recent polemic against the Tudeh Party; reasons for leaving the Party; on the government’s decision to coopt former Tudeh activists; recollections of employment at the Ministry of Information and Tourism, and Radio Iran; recollections of Nosratollah Mo`iniyan and General Hasan Pakravan; reminiscences of participation in drawing up the constitution of the Rastakhiz Party; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Parham, Baqer

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

Education and family background; recollection of the political scene in Rasht in the 1950s; on the impact of the events of 1953 in Rasht; activities of the Iran Party in Gilan; political activities, trial and imprisonment in the 1950s; experiences with the Center for Social Studies of Tehran University; on gravitating towards Marxism; recollections of Amir Parviz Puyan and other leaders of the Fada’iyan; on his political activism and problems encountered with the authorities; recollections of a meeting with Parviz Sabeti; on the political climate reigning in Iranian university campuses in the 1970s; nature and structure of thought and world view of the Iranian intelligentsia in the 1970s; on the establishment and activities of the Writers Association of Iran; recollections of the arrangements made for the “Ten Nights” program at the Goethe Institute organized by the Association; political importance and accomplishments of the Association; internal conflicts in the Association and their ramifications; on the radicalization of the Association’s politics in the 1978-79 and the Writers Association’s eventual demise after the revolution.

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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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Majidi, Abdol-Majid

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

Recollections of first meetings with Hasan Ali Mansur and Amir Abbas Hoveyda; on Hoveyda’s leadership style and management of the cabinet and the government; origins of the Rastakhiz Party and the Shah’s conception of it; public’s reaction to the Rastakhiz Party; Shah’s position on the role and future of the Rastakhiz Party; relations between the Shah and the cabinet; on the Shah’s personality and leadership style; on the causes of the Revolution; workings of the Plan and Budget Organization; on the development of economic planning in Iran; Abol-Hasan Ebtehaj and the Plan and Budget Organization; relations between economic planning and government operations; recollections of Jamshid Amuzegar; assessment of Hoveyda’s premiership; Hoveyda’s relations with the Shah; Hoveyda’s incarceration, freedom, and later voluntary return to prison after the Revolution; on Hoveyda’s attempt to defend himself in a public forum.

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Lehfeldt, William*

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

Educational background and early career; technical and economic relations between Iran and the U.S.; on social and economic change in Iran in the 1970s; U.S. economic and financial investments in Iran; U.S. Embassy in Iran during the MacArthur and Helms ambassadorships; on economic planning in Iran; on Iran’s role in the OPEC and the decision to raise the price of oil; U.S. government and business community’s reaction to Iran’s position on oil prices; relations between U.S. and Iran’s industrial sector, and economic planners; mode of operation of American private companies and contractors in Iran; assessment of Iran’s development policies; activities of General Electric in Iran; on Iran’s private sector; on the Revolution of 1978-79 and the reasons for the fall of the Pahlavi state.

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Jandaqi, Mozaffar

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

Reminiscences of childhood in Kerman; cultural features and socioeconomic conditions of Kerman; association with the National Front; on the organization of the Tudeh Party at Tehran University; recollections of Mohammad Mosaddeq and Mozaffar Baqa’i-Kermani; on private contracting in Iran in the 1970s; on agriculture in Iran following the White Revolution; recollections of General Zargham; membership in Iran Novin and Rastakhiz parties; workings of the Majles; on the Revolution of 1978-79.

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