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Pejman, Colonel Issa

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

Intelligence activities against Tudeh Party cells in the military; recollections of General Razmara’s premiership; on the events of 1953; structure and operations of SAVAK’s Kurdish Affairs Bureau; recollections of Mulla Mustafa Barzani; on the plan for joint Iranian, American and Israeli assistance to the Iraqi Kurds; on the contacts between Iranian and Iraqi Kurds; recollections of General Teymur Bakhtiyar and his activities in Iraq; impact of the military coup of 1958 in Iraq on Iran-Iraq relations; rapport between Iran and Iraq during the Qasem and Aref regimes; recollections of Aref’s trip to Iran; memory of a meeting with Saddam Hossein; on the Algiers Accord of 1975.

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Etemad, Akbar

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

Family background; education and childhood in Hamadan; membership in Tudeh Party; structure and activities of the Tudeh Party’s youth groups; recollections of student activism in Europe; joining the faculty of Tehran University; higher education planning at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education under Minister Majid Rahnema; balance-sheet of the Ministry’s activities; on the Shah and his approach to debate among the various planners; on the Ramsar Educational Conferences; on the character and leadership style of the Shah; creation of the Bu-Ali University; on the decision to form the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran; planning and operating nuclear power plants in Iran; effect of the Atomic Energy Organization on the national economy; 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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Avery, Peter

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

Educational background; employment at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; relations between AIOC and the Iranian government; Iranian intellectuals in the 1940s; recollections of Sadeq Hedayat, Sadeq Chubak, Bozorg Alavi and Seyyed Sadeq Goharin; on the Tudeh Party and its influence in the 1950s; meetings with Seyyed Ziyaoddin Tabataba’i, General Teymur Bakhtiyar, Mozaffar Baqa’i-Kermani and Hosein Makki; on the leadership of the National Front; on the events of 1953 and the premiership of General Fazlollah Zahedi; on Mojtaba Minovi and Parviz Natel Khanlari; recollections of Abol-Hasan Ebtehaj, General Vali Mohammad Qarane’i, Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Jamshid Amuzegar, Ali Amini and Amir Asadollah Alam; on the White Revolution and the celebrations for the 2500 years of Iranian monarchy; on the role of religion in politics; on contemporary Iranian literature; on social change in Iran during the Pahlavi period.

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