Tehran University Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Ziya’i, Taher

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

Recollections of childhood and family background; reminiscences of education at Alborz High School; recollections of education in Germany during WWII; beginning entrepreneurial activities; recollections of the events of 1953; recollections of personal encounters with the leading members of the National Front; memory of conversations with Bazargan following the Revolution and Bazargan’s comment on Ayatollah Khomeini; working of the Ministry of Industries and Mines; reminiscences of Ja`far Sharif-Emami, Ali Amini, and Amir Asadollah Alam; origins of industrial planning in Iran; recollections of events leading to the fall of the first Sharif-Emami government; on the formation of the Pahlavi Foundation; working and objectives of the Foundation; on the early months of the Revolution of 1978-79 and the pressure to force the resignation of various government officials; on the implementation of the edicts of the White Revolution and its impact on Iranian industries; on the land reform program and the role of Hasan Arsanjani in its implementation; structure and operation of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce; recollections of the proceedings of the High Economic Council; on industrial planning in Iran, its determinants and its results; on government’s anti-inflation campaign and the emergence of political discontent; personal experiences with the Revolution; on the causes of the Revolution.

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Yatsevitch, Colonel Gratian*

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

Educational background; beginnings of career at CIA; CIA’s objectives and operations in Iran in the 1950s; recollections of Allen Dulles; U.S. strategic interest in Iran in the 1950s; impressions of the Shah, and memories of their meetings; on the Shah’s goals and objectives; CIA’s views on the Shah; relations between the U.S. and Iran during the Eisenhower administration; recollections of the early years of SAVAK and General Teymur Bakhtiyar; recollections of Ambassadors Chapin, Wailes and Holmes, and their relations with the Shah; on social and economic change in Iran; debates between CIA analysts over political stability in Iran; U.S. contacts with and assessments of the opposition to the Shah in the 1950s and 1960s; on General Qarane’i’s alleged coup plans; extent of the loyalty of the armed forces to the Shah in the 1950s and 1960s; relations between the National Front and the Kennedy administration; on U.S. and the premiership of Ali Amini; working of oil consortiums in Iran; on the riots at Tehran University in 1961; recollections of Amir Asadollah Alam and Hasan Arsanjani; on the White Revolution of 1963; Johnson’s trip to Iran; Iran-Soviet relations; Israel’s relations with Iran; extent of cooperations between CIA and SAVAK; on U.S. listening posts in Iran; on events of 1963-64; economic development and corruption.

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Shayegan, Daryush

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

Family and educational background; recollections of early intellectual activities in Iran and meeting with leading philosophers and mystics; recollections of the cultural ambience of Tehran University’s Faculty of Letters; working, agenda and objectives of the Iranian Center for the Study of Cultures; cultural and sociopolitical views of the intelligentsia in the 1960s and 1970s; on the interactions of various intellectual trends in Iran; intellectuals and the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Sarfaraz, Hosein

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

Family and educational background; recollections of student years and classmates at Tehran University in the 1950s; a recollection of Sa`idi Sirjani; going into journalism; debates on modern poetry (She`r-e now) in the 1950s; on Fereydun Tavallali’s poetry; on the literary circles of Tehran in the 1950s; development of theater in the 1950s; on technical changes in newspaper printing; on the political culture of journalism in Iran and its evolution after the events of 1953; on the nature, extent and ambience of censorship in the media; on Kayhan and Ettela`at Corporations; on the left in the newspapers in the 1960s and 1970s; Media and the Hoveyda government; on Amir Taheri’s appointment as editor of Kayhan and the leftist take-over of Kayhan in the 1970s; on Ali Asghar Amirani and the Khandaniha magazine; on financial sources of support of media; on the competition between the printed media and radio and television; on the Ettela`at article on the Ayatollah Khomeini; on the Rastakhiz daily newspaper; on newspapers before and after the Revolution.

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Saberi, Pari

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

Reminiscences of childhood in Kerman; political inclinations among high school students of the time; career at the Ministry of Culture and Arts; on continuity and change in the performing arts in Iran; on censorship and its effect on the arts; recollections of theatre productions at Tehran University and the response of students to it; memories of Forugh Farrokhzad; recollections of the Shiraz Art Festival; beginnings of the Revolution of 1978-79; on the life of Iranians in exile.

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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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Nateq, Homa

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

Recollections of childhood and family background; education and later career at Tehran University; on the intelligentsia in the 1960s and the 1970s; political dissent and human rights activities; circumstances of and motives for attack on her by security forces during a demonstration; balance-sheet of the activities of leftist forces during the Pahlavi period; on the role and functions of SAVAK; reflection on her own political career and a reexamination of political conditions in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s; on activities of political groups in exile; on the future of Iran.

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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:25 +0000

Family background; recollections of childhood and educational history; teaching at Tehran University; as Dean of Faculty of Letters of Tehran University; teaching at the American University of Beirut and at Harvard university; on problems that confronted Iranian universities; on Ali-Naqi Alikhani as Chancellor of Tehran University; on the academic agenda and calibre of Arya Mehr University of Technology and the problems facing that University; sources of the political unrest in the Iranian universities; role of the leftist and Islamic groups in student activism; impressions of the Shah and his religious beliefs; role of religion in the Iranian polity and society; rejuvenation of Iranian culture in the 1970s; cultural relations between Iran and other countries; on the personal traits of Queen Farah; on the Iranian political elite; recollections of Iran’s important religio-cultural figures; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79; recollections of the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Motahhari, and Ali Shari`ati.

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Mosaddeqi, Taqi

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:25 +0000

Educational and family background; employment with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC); structure and operations of AIOC; on the development of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC); on the National Iranian Gas Company and its operations; recollections of the leading managers of NIOC; changes in the structure and operations of NIOC following the rise in the price of oil; technological and economic linkages between NIOC operations and the industrial sector of the economy; assessment of the organizational and operational procedures at NIOC; impact of Iran’s gas industry on the other economic sectors; on the negotiations with the Soviet Union over the sale of gas; assessment of Iran’s economic development policies; on the balance-sheet of the Plan and Budget Organization; on decision making in Iran’s economic sector; relations between industries and government organizations and ministries.

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Matini, Jalal

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

Family background and childhood; recollections of education at Tehran University; political trends among the youth at the time; teaching career at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; intellectual and political climate of the University; on Iran’s higher education system, and the planning for its further development; recollections of Ali Shari`ati, the issues surrounding his employment at Ferdowsi University, local government authorities’ support of Shari`ati against the University, and Shari`ati’s record as a teacher at the University; recollections of the various governors of Khorasan; relations between the University and the various social strata in Mashhad; memories of the revolutionary upheaval; relations between Ferdowsi University and the countries neighboring Iran.

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