United States-Iranian Relations Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

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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Williamson, General Ellis*

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

Educational background and early career; recollections of tenure of office in Iran; on the structure and operations of the Iranian armed forces; nature and extent of Iran’s arms procurements from the U.S.; pattern and extent of growth of the Iranian armed forces; military planning in Iran; recollections of Iran’s various military commanders; U.S. foreign policy towards Iran; U.S. views on the sale of arms to Iran; on the Shah, his strategic views and policies; U.S. interests in arms sales to Iran; Iran’s role in U.S.’s geostrategic considerations; on the political situation in Iran in the early 1970s.

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Twitchell, General Hamilton A.*

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

Personal history; early career; first experiences with Iran in 1962; impressions of Iran; views on the Iranian people and their leaders; on the Shah; role of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Iran; relations between Iran and the U.S. State and Defense Departments; relations between ARMISH-MAAG and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran; U.S.’s security concerns in the Persian Gulf area; Shah’s plans for the Iranian armed forces; relations between the Iranian armed forces and the Iranian society; changes in the Iranian society in the 1960s; impressions of the Iranian armed forces and its leaders; projects implemented by ARMISH-MAAG in the Iranian armed forces; on the sale of equipment and arms by the U.S. to Iran; training and maintenance concerns; on the opposition to the Pahlavi regime in Iran; personal impressions of contemporary Iranian politics.

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Tufaniyan, General Hasan

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

Recollections of childhood in Iran; on conditions in Iran during the early Pahlavi period; Iranian armed forces and the occupation of Iran during WWII; history of Imperial Iranian Air Force; reminiscences of the leading Iranian military leaders; on the Shah and his leadership style; structure and mode of organization of the Iranian armed forces; Iran’s military relations with Pakistan; recollections of Iran’s various arms procurement deals; military’s procedures for acquiring new arms and equipment; myth and reality of personal profit making in arms deals; Shah’s reaction to the revolutionary upheaval; on the attempts of military commanders to compel the Shah to decisive action against revolutionary forces; Shah’s indecision before the revolutionary onslaught; on the Iranian military’s arms production and its contribution to the development of an industrial complex.

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Tiger, M. Gordon

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

Recollections of early experiences with Iran in the 1950s; on the working of the U.S. Embassy in Iran in the 1950s and early 1960s; Iranian economy in the 1950s; impact of the events of 1953 on U.S.-Iranian relations; on the Point Four Program in Iran; CIA’s assessment of the opposition to the Shah in the 1960s; relations between Iran and Israel in the 1950s; U.S.-Iranian relations in the 1950s; on Secretary McNamara’s position on arms sales to Iran; on Ambassadors Wailes and Holmes; Robert Kennedy’s meeting with student dissidents and its effect on U.S.-Iranian relations; U.S. policy towards Iran in the 1960s; U.S. contacts with Iranian opposition groups; U.S. aid to Iran in the 1960s; on the Shah’s threat to purchase arms from the Soviet Union; effect of the White Revolution on Iranian politics and U.S.-Iranian relations.

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Stutsman, John*

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

Early diplomatic career; recollections of U.S. Embassy in Tehran in the 1940s; recollections of Mohammad Mosaddeq and other important Iranian political leaders; impressions of Iranian culture; role of Great Britain in Iran in the 1940s; U.S.-Iranian relations in the 1940s and the 1950s; recollections of the Shah at the time; on the relations between various U.S. ambassadors and the Shah; U.S. and Razmara’s premiership; on the assassination of General Razmara; U.S. policy towards the Mosaddeq government and its role in the fall of the Mosaddeq government; relations between Ambassador Grady and Mosaddeq; evolution of U.S.’s position on the events of 1953; on “Operation AJAX”; Iranian politics in the post-1953 period; U.S. policy towards Iran following the fall of Mosaddeq.

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Rusk, Dean*

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

Recollections of the Azarbayjan Crisis of 1945-46; U.S.-Iran relations during the Kennedy administration; role of CENTO in U.S.-Iranian relations; disputes between the Kennedy administration and the Iranian government on arms sales to Iran; U.S. and the White Revolution; U.S. policy towards the Shah in the 1960s; Iran in U.S. geopolitical considerations; U.S. policy on Iran during the Johnson administration.

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Qoreishi, Ahmad

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

Family and educational background; recollections of the intellectual and academic environment in Iranian universities in the 1960s and 1970s; planning for higher education in Iran; reorganization of the National University of Iran; political climate of the Iranian universities in the 1970s; extent of political freedom on the campuses; assessment of the quality of higher education in Iran; on SAVAK’s influence in university campuses; on Parviz Sabeti; on Prime Minister Hoveyda’s leadership style and personal qualities; origins of the idea of the Rastakhiz Party; structure, agenda, and mode of operation of the Party; Prime Minister Hoveyda’s reaction to the Rastakhiz Party; on the Shah’s distrust of the Rastakhiz Party and his efforts to curb its power; recollections of the management of the Rastakhiz Party by its various secretary-generals; extent of the Party’s popularity and success; reasons for the Party’s failure to curb revolutionary mobilization of the masses; on the meeting between the Shah and Karim Sanjabi in 1978; on Amir Asadollah Alam; on the administration of Khorasan Province; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Parsons, Sir Anthony

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

Early contacts with Iran; on the events of 1953 and the formation of the Baghdad Pact; on the Shah’s role in resolving the Bahrain issue; Britain’s economic interests in Iran in the 1970s; on Britain’s departure from the Persian Gulf in 1971; Britain’s commercial, industrial and military relations with Iran; recollections of Prime Minister Hoveyda; personal impressions of the Shah and his leadership style; Shah’s view of British policy on Iran; on Iranians’ distrust of the British; recollections of the politicization of university campuses in Iran; on charges of Britain’s complicity in the Iranian Revolution; on Iranian politics in the late 1970s; on various Iranian public figures; on the roots of the Revolution; impressions of Westernization of Iran and its political consequences; assessment of industrial development in Iran; recollections of Iranian politics during the revolutionary upheaval; Shah’s consultations with the interviewee and Ambassador Sullivan; Britain’s position on the Shah’s decision to leave Iran; on the B.B.C.’s alleged role in inciting opposition to the Shah; on Queen Farah.

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Pahlavi, Princess Ashraf

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

Reminiscences of childhood; recollections of Reza Shah, relations with mother and siblings; relations with Crown Prince Mohammad Reza; early education; relations between Reza Shah and Abdol-Hosein Teymurtash; on Sardar As`ad Bakhtiyari’s attempt on Reza Shah’s life; recollections of Mohammad Reza Shah’s marriage to Queen Fawziyeh and reasons for their divorce; on the Shah’s marriage to Queen Sorayya; recollections of Reza Shah’s exile to South Africa; travel from South Africa back to Iran; marriage in Cairo; on Prime Minister Mosaddeq and the events of 1953; role in the anti-Mosaddeq campaign; on General Zahedi, Hosein Ala, Manuchehr Eqbal and Amir Asadollah Alam; on foreign powers and the tribal and religious opposition to the Pahlavi state; on the Shah’s close advisors, Generals Karim Ayadi and Hosein Fardust; SAVAK from General Teymur Bakhtiyar to General Ne`matollah Nasiri; on the media and the left; recollections of the revolutionary upheavals; on the Shah’s illness; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79; recollections of meetings with Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller after the Revolution; on the Shah’s reaction to the Revolution; on Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Jamshid Amuzegar and Ja`far Sharif-Emami; Shapur Bakhtiyar’s premiership and General Huyser’s trip to Iran; on the Shah’s life in exile.

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