Tudeh Party Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Zolfaqari, Naser

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

Educational and family background; early career in the government; career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on the Tudeh Party, its activities, and government reaction to it; recollections of the occupation of Iran during WWII; on brother Mahmud Zolfaqari’s armed struggle against “Ferqeh-e Demokrat” in Zanjan; Razmara government and the nationalization of oil industry; on the negotiations over nationalization of oil; recollections of Mosaddeq, the National Front and the events of 1953; political opinions of the National Front leadership in the 1950s; on the relations between the Shah, Ahmad Qavam, Mohammad Mosaddeq and Ali Amini; on Fereydun Keshavarz’s differences with the Tudeh Party; Soviet intrigues in Iran, and the activities of the Tudeh Party; recollections of armed conflicts between the Tudeh Party and government forces; relations between the armed forces and tribal groups in the post-war years; recollections of tenure of office as Mayor of Tehran; working of Tehran’s governmental structure; ministerial position in Amini’s cabinet; recollections of the Amini government and the White Revolution; on Iranian politics and its major actors following the events of 1953; reminiscences of the premiership of Hosein Ala’; on the development of radio and other communication facilities in Iran; recollections of various Iranian political leaders; on the formation of SAVAK; recollections of SAVAK’s earliest operations in the Persian Gulf; on economic planning and its political determinants in the early 1960s; recollections of Mansur’s premiership; on various Iranian political leaders.

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Yeganeh, Naser

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

Recollections of childhood and education in Europe and America; on the history, structure and mode of operation of the judiciary in Iran; working of the Ministry of Justice in Iran; place of religion in Iran’s legal code; role of the judiciary in the operation of the government; issue of women’s rights and the reaction of the judiciary to it; on the Family Protection Law and its implementation; observations on the White Revolution; on the Shah, his powers and his leadership style; on the workings of the cabinet; impact of the events of 1953 on later political decisions; on the causes of the Revolution; attitude of the Islamic Republic toward the judiciary; personal experiences with the Islamic Republic and the revolutionary courts.

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Qasemi, Mehdi Baradaran

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

Family background and early political socialization; joining the Tudeh Party; Party’s structure and method of recruitment; relations between the Tudeh Party and the government between 1941 and 1945; Tudeh Party’s appeal to the youth; internal ideological divisions within the Tudeh Party; intellectual and political climate within the Tudeh Party; role of the intellectuals in the Party; Tudeh Party and the Azarbayjan Crisis of 1945-46; on Khalil Maleki and the balance-sheet of his activities; relations between Tudeh Party and the National Front; on the Tudeh Party cells within the military; on Nureddin Kiyanuri and his leadership of the Party; on Mozaffar Firuz and Ahmad Qavam; government reaction to Tudeh Party’s activities; recollections of imprisonment as a Tudeh activist; on the mode of operation of the Tudeh Party; on the deaths of Lankarani and Ghaffari; on Fereydun Keshavarz’s recent polemic against the Tudeh Party; reasons for leaving the Party; on the government’s decision to coopt former Tudeh activists; recollections of employment at the Ministry of Information and Tourism, and Radio Iran; recollections of Nosratollah Mo`iniyan and General Hasan Pakravan; reminiscences of participation in drawing up the constitution of the Rastakhiz Party; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Naderpur, Nader

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

Recollections of childhood and family relations; beginnings of literary career; memories of September 1941 and the occupation of Iran; nationalist sentiments and political activities among the youth in the l940s; resurgence of the Tudeh Party and its youth organizations; establishment of the Pan-Iranist Party; joining the Tudeh Party; Tudeh Party’s structure and political activities; literary and cultural activities of the Tudeh Party; secessionism in Azarbayjan and the Tudeh Party; artistic and literary climate in the 1940s; recollections of the events of 1953; travel and stay in Europe; participation in the activities of the press and writers’ organizations upon return to Iran; employment at the National Iranian Radio and Television Organization (NIRT); NIRT and the revolutionary upheaval; on the Queen Farah Foundation; on politically committed literature; recollections of a meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini; Khomeini’s persona and its evolution over the years.

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Mohamedi, Hamid

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

Family and educational background; early political activities; National Front in the 1960s; background of the establishment of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS); structure and political program of CIS; relations between CIS and the Tudeh Party; relations between the various constituencies of CIS; government’s reaction to student activism; emergence of radicalism in CIS; impact of events of 1963-64; on the plan to assassinate the Shah.

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Mahjub, Mohammad Jafar

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

Memories of childhood and images of Tehran at the time; status of education in Iran at the time; employment at the Majles as secretary-stenographer; joining the Tudeh Party; Tudeh Party’s structure and mode of operation; literary activities of the Tudeh Party; Tudeh Party’s main organizers; government reaction to Tudeh Party’s activities in the Majles; literary and intellectual activities in Iran during the Pahlavi period; intellectual climate at Tehran University; government’s censorship policies; recollections of Hasan Emami and how he became Emam Jom`eh of Tehran.

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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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Khajenuri, Naser

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

Recollections of childhood and beginnings of political activity; history, structure and ideas of the National Front; on dissident politics before the Revolution; on the Bazargan government; on the division of power after the Revolution; on the fate of SAVAK and the armed forces after the Revolution; on Ayatollah Khomeini and other revolutionary leaders; Islamic republic’s policy toward the Kurds in Iran and Iraq; Khomeini’s relations with other clerics; on the debates on economy in the Parliament; on Rafsanjani and his politics; on the military coup attempts by Sadeq Qotbzadeh and the Tudeh Party; on the political role and powers of Ahmad Khomeini.

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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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Jafrudi, Kazem

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

Recollections of childhood, education history, and early career; recollections of Iran during the Reza Shah period; trials and tribulations of early political career; recollections of trial and imprisonment for political activities; on Iranian politics during the Pahlavi era; memories of Tehran University; evolution of academic standards at the University; on the Tudeh Party and its activities; on the gradual politicization of Tehran University; recollection of various chancellors of the University; reasons for growth of dissent in university campuses in Iran; balance-sheet of higher education planning in Iran; on meetings with various political leaders in 1978-79; on the working of Ministry of Science and Higher Education; recollections of employment at the Central Bank of Iran; on construction contracting in Iran; on the pattern of city planning and development in Iran; policy-making in the National Front in 1978-79; beginnings of the National Front; recollections of the Shah, Mosaddeq and other Iranian political leaders; membership in the Mardom Party; recollections of the Majles; on the meetings between army commanders and opposition leaders in 1979 prior to the Revolution; on the Bakhtiyar premiership; National Front and the Revolution; on General Naser Moqaddam; on General Abbas Qarabaghi and the decision to neutralize the armed forces; role of Mehdi Bazargan in shaping the course of events; recollections of Ayatollah Beheshti and his relations with the National Front; recollections of events following the Iranian Revolution and reminiscences of hiding, incarceration, and subsequent escape from Iran; National Front activities after the Revolution.

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