Leader’s memory of his philosophy professor

Ayatollah Sheikh Mujtaba Qazvini was the philosophy professor of the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and a lecturer and great scholar in Mashhad during 1330s and 1340s (1950s and 1960s). Ayatollah Qazvini was among the first persons who went to the city of Qom and pledged allegiance with Imam Khomeini (God’s mercy upon him) with the beginning of the movement against the Pahlavi regime; an allegiance which lasted until his death in 1346 SH (1967).

Women’s Oral History Is Underworked

Little work has been done in reviewing the role of women as the projects of oral history and composing the memories. “The women’s campaigns especially their cultural efforts have been neglected in Islamic Revolution historiography, chiefly when you consider that Islamic Hijab ,as a symbol of Islamic identity, was an important challenge to Pahlavi regime. Moreover women’s activities in armed and revolutionary campaigns are remarkable”, said cultural issues expert and history researcher, Mojtaba Soltani Ahmadi, in an interview with Fars News Agency history reporter. “Imam Khomeini, the late leader of Islamic Revolution, was fully aware of the vital role of women in progress and victory of Islamic movement”, said the writer of Research Book of Islamic Revolution.

‘Pack Full of Green Memories’ of Sacred Defense released

IBNA- The book ‘A Pack Full of Green Memories’ on the oral history and memoires of the Iranian air defense forces during the “Sacred Defense” was published by Khatam ul-Anbia Air Defense Headquarters Publications. According to IBNA correspondent, the book ‘A Pack Full of Green Memories’ by Faramarz Rouhafza, Mahmoud Hejami and Reza Jahanfar deals with a part of the oral memoires of air defense forces during the eight year-war Iraq waged against Iran. The preface of the book is about the title chosen for the book, reading; ‘’The title is the name of a verse from the poems of Alireza Qazveh, a poet of our country.’’

Iran through the eyes of Valerie Jarrett

A battle over American foreign policy is looming such as this country has not seen since the penultimate days of the Vietnam War nearly half a century ago. I can’t remember the last time that two distinguished former Secretaries of State co-signed an article denouncing a presidential initiative in terms as harsh as George Shultz and Henry Kissinger applied to Obama’s proposed Iran deal. Kissinger was the great conciliator, the architect of the opening to China and the advocate of detente with Russia. Obama’s own party is split on the issue, and usually supportive commentators in the press view the outcome of the Lausanne talks with skepticism, if not out right hostility. What explains the great gulf fixed between Obama’s perceptions and those of a large part of the liberal establishment, not to mention the Republicans?

Can Iran Tolerate Its Own History?

A new documentary project that gives a say to people close to the shah and his toppled monarchy is testing the limits of today’s Iranian regime Life under the Shah of Iran: Filmmaker Hossein Dehbashi has compiled an oral history from dozens of interviews with prominent members of pre-revolutionary Iranian society. Photo: Bill Spindle/The Wall Street Journal Bill Spindle Hossein Dehbashi, a 43-year-old Iranian documentary filmmaker, is making a splash in Tehran by giving voice to some of the most controversial figures in Iran: high officials and leading lights of the regime of the shah, overthrown in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. Long disparaged as traitors and dupes, the officials should be seen more objectively, says Mr. Dehbashi, who earlier this year published the first four volumes of an ambitious new oral history that gives a say to members of Iran’s ancien regime.

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