Yar-Afshar, Parviz

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

Educational background, and recollections of early childhood; recollections of General Fazlollah Zahedi; General Zahedi’s personal characteristics and stature in the armed forces; reasons for Zahedi’s opposition to Mosaddeq’s policies; General Zahedi’s planning of the military operations which led to the removal of the Mosaddeq government; roles of the Shah and CIA in General Zahedi’s plans; on General Zahedi’s paramount role in the events of 1953; on the Shah’s personal traits and leadership style; on the working of the Senate; on the various members of the Iranian political elite; recollections of the White Revolution of 1963 and its social ramifications; memories of arrest and imprisonment after the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Varahram, General Karim

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

Recollections of the formative years of the Iranian armed forces; recollections of Reza Shah, his leadership style, and his relations with the armed forces; fate of the Iranian army during the allied occupation of Iran; on the Azarbayjan crisis of 1945-46; recollections of service in Azarbayjan during the Soviet occupation and the formation of the Pishevari government; on the structure and mode of operation of the Iranian armed forces; recollection of the various leaders of the armed forces, and political leaders of Iran; on the relations between Iran and Iraq following Colonel Qasem’s military coup of 1958; impact of the events of 1963-64 in Fars; recollections of the Senate and assessment of its role in the politics of Iran in the 1970s; on the Shah and impressions of a meeting with him in 1978.

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Yar-Afshar, Parviz

Varahram, General Karim