Books about memoirs of Baqeri and Khosravi released

About his newly-released book, Saeed Alamian said, "The collection of memories of Ali Khosravi titled "On Way" has been published by the International Publication. It is among the first ones which deal with writing the memoires of the soldiers who were in the concentration camps of the Saddam's army. Khosravi was among the POWs of the eight-year holy defense who spent some ten years in Iraq's different camps. The literature used about Iran's POWs usually had a one-sided view which was written either fully black or white. A moderate look was seen less in such works. This is one of the characteristics of "On Way". Moreover, we have tried in the book to narrate the days of captivity, its problems and the vents happened for Iranian POWs from the language of an army soldier. This has been paid less attention by the writers who work in the area of the holy defense."

Senate documents to be released soon

During the 5th Expert Meeting of the Majlis(parliament) History with the topic of reviewing of the 19th and 20th Majlises held in the venue of the Majlis's Constitutional Hall on 30 Ordibehesht 1393 solar hijri (May 20, 2014), the Director of Iran's Majlis Library, Museum and Document Center Mohammad Rajabi has announced that the documents related to the first term of Iran's Majlis until the last day of this Majlis during Pahlavi will be released by the center in a digitalized form. Referring to the digital capabilities of these CDs, he urged the researchers to make use of them properly. He also spoke of the release of the Senate documents until the end of the season of spring, saying, "They will be presented with the same quality of the Majlis documents and I urge the professors and students in the fields of history and political science to use the treasury."

The Coup

In August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran’s oil wealth and became a key player in this volatile region. The blowback was almost inevitable, as this new and revealing history of the coup and its consequences shows. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the shah and replaced his puppet government with a radical Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the shift reverberated throughout the Middle East and the world, casting a long, dark shadow over U.S.-Iran relations that extends to the present day.

11th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Dying and Death

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