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Kazemiyyeh, Eslam

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

Family and educational background; activism in the Tudeh Party; structure and mode of operation of the Tudeh Party; divisions within the Tudeh Party; recollections of Khalil Maleki and the Third Force Party; Iran’s intellectual and artistic climate in the 1960s and the 1970s; political organization among Iranian writers; Prime Minister Alam’s co-optation of Tudeh activists; on Amini’s premiership; on the events of 1963-64, and their political implications; on social change in Iran; political activities of the dissident groups in the 1970s; roots of the religious establishment’s alienation from the Pahlavi state; on the intellectuals and bureaucrats’ support for the Revolution; personal encounters with the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamene’i; reminiscences of Ali Shari`ati; politics in Iran after the Revolution; on meetings between Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr and Ardeshir Zahedi; government’s reaction to revolutionary upheaval; reasons for leaving Iran.

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Farhang, Mansur

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

Childhood memories, family background and upbringing; beginnings of political career and activities in the Third Force Party (Niru-ye Sevvom); life as a student in the U.S.; involvement with anti-war and anti-Shah political activism in the U.S.; academic career in the U.S.; recollections of briefing the State Department prior to trip to Paris to meet with Ayatollah Khomeini; cocnerning the set-up and working of the Nauphle le Chateau compound; Iranian politics immediately after the revolution; on the ramification of the clashes between leftist forces and the Bazargan government; recollections of trip to Cuba as part of the Iranian delegation to the Non-Aligned Movement’s congress; contacts between Iranian and Iraqi delegations; recollections of mediating conflicts between the various factions at the Iranian Embassy in Canada; on becoming Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations; recollections of a meeting with Ayatollahs Khomeini and Montazeri to discuss the formation of an international commission to review the crimes committed by the U.S. against the Iranian nation; recollections of the hostage crisis; Kurt Waldheim’s role during the crisis; consequences of the fall of the Bazargan government; on the drafting of a new constitution and discussions which led to the convening of the Council of Experts; on Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr, his personal qualities, relations with the Mojahedin, stance against Khomeini, and subsequent fall from power; on Bani-Sadr’s escape from Iran; Sadeq Qotbzadeh’s arrest, trial, and chances of clemency; departure from Iran and life in the United States.

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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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Ashuri, Daryush

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

Educational background; recollections of involvement in politics in the 1950s; on the National Front and its activities after 1953; recollections of literary activities in the 1950s and 1960s; recollections of cooperation with Khalil Maleki and the Third Force Party (Niru-ye Sevvum); relations between the opposition forces and the regime; on the first and second Writers’ Association of Iran; recollection of General Naser Moqaddam, and impressions of political thinking within SAVAK; assessment of the political activities of the liberal and leftist forces in the 1960s; on the Iranian intellectuals and the Revolution of 1978-79.

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