Ramsar Educational Conference Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

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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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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Baheri, Mohammad

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

Reminiscences of childhood in Shiraz; changes in the educational system under Reza Shah; education at Tehran University; political climate in the university at the time; career at the Ministry of Justice; membership in the Tudeh Party; on the Iranian political elite; on the political culture of Iran; pro-German sympathies in Iran before WWII; on Reza Shah’s modernization policies; association with Amir Asadollah Alam; recollections of the leadership of the Tudeh Party; personal experiences with the Shah; recollections of the occupation of Iran during WWII; on the organizational procedures of the Tudeh Party in Shiraz; origin, history and program of the Rastakhiz Party; Amnesty International’s debates with Iranian government over the human rights issue; relations between the government and the religious establishment in the Pahlavi period; on the Ettela`at Newspaper’s article against Ayatollah Khomeini; reflections on Amir Asadollah Alam; recollection of a confrontation with Mozaffar Firuz.

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