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Vaziri, Shahrokh

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

Educational background; association with the National Front while at high school; structure of the National Front in the 1960s; reaction of the National Front to the events of 1963-64; emergence and growth of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS); on the various ideological orientations in CIS; radicalization of CIS; contacts between CIS and foreign political organizations; funding, organization and publications of CIS; CIS’s relations with Ayatollah Khomeini; internal differences in CIS and its consequences; CIS’s relations with Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr and the Mojahedin; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79; recollections of arrest and interrogation by SAVAK; on the Parviz Nikkhah group and its activities; on the events of 1963-64, Ayatollah Khomeini, General Teymur Bakhtiyar and the political climate of that period.

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Shamlu, Maryam

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

Family and educational background; recollections of schooling in France and England, and experiences with women’s movements in those countries; impressions of the sociopolitical climate at Iranian universities; on the change in the social role of women in Iran in the 1970s; consciousness raising and other activities of the Women’s Organization of Iran (WOI) and their impact on women’s consciousness throughout the country; recollections of political activism among Iranian intellectuals in the 1970s; participating in meetings organized by Abdol-Karim Lahiji and Ali Asghar Haj Seyyed Javadi; women’s role in the revolutionary movement and their reaction to its aftermath; on the views of the National Front leaders on Khomeini; National Front’s policy towards the Bakhtiyar premiership; fate of the WOI after the Revolution; changes in the image of women following the Revolution; on the organization and composition of the demonstrating crowds; women’s rights and the politics of power in revolutionary Iran; impressions of Iran during a trip in 1989; impact of gender segregation on the culture of the educated classes; on women’s condition in post-revolutionary Iran.

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Lahiji, Abdol-Karim

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

Recollections of childhood and educational history; first encounters with political activism and the National Front; recollections of Tehran University; student activism and government reaction to it; National Front activity after 1953; National Front’s attitude towards the Amini government; on the riots at Tehran University and charges of collaboration between the National Front and General Teymur Bakhtiyar; National Front’s reaction to the White Revolution; recollections of government clamp down on National Front activities, and his incarceration in 1963; on the change in the political climate in Iran after the events of 1963-64; radicalization of politics and the emergence of urban guerilla movements in Iran; recollections of the trial of the leading political dissidents; on Khomeini’s emergence as a national political leader; on the repressive tactics employed by SAVAK; on human rights and efforts to promote it in Iran; on the government’s liberalization campaign in 1977; recollections of the beginnings of the revolutionary upheaval.

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