Rastakhiz Party Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

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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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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Homayun, Daryush

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

Recollections of childhood; political activism among Iranian youth in the 1940s; nationalism in Iran during the Reza Shah period; establishing the Ayandegan Daily; government restrictions on the operation of newspapers; reminiscences of the activities of the Franklin Institute in Tehran; on the formation of a writers’ association; on the nature and extent of political socialization of Iranians during the Pahlavi period; changes in the political orientation of Iranians during the late Pahlavi period; on Hoveyda’s premiership; origins, workings and agenda of the Rastakhiz Party; premiership of Jamshid Amuzegar; on Ettela`at Newspaper’s inflammatory article against Ayatollah Khomeini in 1977; recollections of the Iranian political scene in the months leading to the Revolution.

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Ebtehaj-Samii, Nayyereh

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

Family and educational background; early interest in women’s rights; reaction of Iranian women to Reza Shah’s campaign against veiling; formation of women’s rights groups and their impact on government policy-making; political enfranchisement of women in 1963; participation in elections to the Majles; structure and mode of operation of Iran Novin Party; reminiscences of Amir Abbas Hoveyda; workings of the Majles; government’s position on women’s rights; Hoveyda’s views on the Rastakhiz Party; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Bani-Ahmad, Ahmad

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

Family’s political and religious history; founding of the Asr-e Tabriz Newspaper; association with the Toilers of Iran and Third Force parties; participation in the elections to the Majles on a Rastakhiz Party ticket; on the political elite of Iran in the 1970s; assessment of the Amuzegar premiership; on the Shah’s attempts at liberalizing the political system; impact of President Carter’s human rights policies on Iran; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79; on the workings of the Majles; recollections of relations between Ayatollah Seyyed Kazem Shari`atmadari and the government; on forming his own independent party; Tabriz riots of 1977; politics of choosing a prime minister in the months preceding the Revolution; Shari`atmadari’s position after the Revolution; memories of prison after the Revolution; underlying trends in the political consciousness of Azarbayjan.

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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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Alimard, Amin

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

Recollections of childhood, family and education; on the Russians in Tabriz during the Allied occupation of Iran; on activities in school during the war; coming to Tehran; School and university in Tehran; involvement in literary activity; employment in the National Railroad System; recollections of military service; editing Jahan-e No literary journal; on Iranian intellectuals during the 1940s and 1950s; on the Tehran political scene in the 1940s; on getting scholarship to the American University of Beirut; education in Beirut; Public Administration Program at the University of Southern California; teaching at the newly established National University of Iran; as deputy minster of interior for political and parliamentary affairs in 1974-75; on Baqer Namazi, Mostafa Alamuti, Holaku Rambod, Gholam Reza Afkhami; on Prime Minister Hoveyda; on Jamshid Amuzegar as Minister of Interior and as Prime Minister; as Secretary General of the State Organization for Administration and Employment; streamlining state administrative system; David Lillienthal’s Development and Resources Organization in Iran; on John Macy; vision of Iran’s future; on the Sharif-Emami cabinet; serving with General Gholam Reza Azhari; keeping appointment with Shapur Bakhtiyar on his last day in office; on the Iranian Revolution; on the Shah; on Queen Farah.

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Afkhami, Mahnaz

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

Founding of the Organization of University Women; history and structure of the Women’s Organization of Iran (WOI); meeting with Princess Ashraf and the role of the Princess in women’s issues; evolution of a free electoral process in WOI; evolution of the ideology and organizational structure of WOI; WOI’s School of Social Welfare; legal reforms, the Family Protection Law and the opposition to it; the Shah’s opinions on the women’s issues; WOI’s presence in the rural areas; rural cooperatives and literacy; consciousness raising as the most notable achievement of WOI; WOI and women in the labor force; National Plan of Action: its concept, structure and implementation mechanisms; WOI’s audience; veiling and the politics of dissent; role as Minister of State and utility of influence in government circles for women’s affairs; decision-making process in the cabinet; on the Shah and the cabinet ministers; Hoveyda’s character and performance; Jamshid Amuzegar as prime minister; recollections of Queen Farah and Princess Ashraf; on the Shah’s personality; importance of the presence of women in high government positions for the advancement of causes advocated by women; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79; role of women in the Revolution.

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