MER Article "Signs of Civil War" Shirin Tehrani is an independent Iranian socialist who has lived most of the post-revolutionary period inside Iran and spoke with Fred Halliday in Europe in late April 1981. There has been much attention here on the dispute within the regime between the faction around President Bani-Sadr, and that (Author not identified) • 9 min read
MER Article Kissinger Memorandum: "To Isolate the Palestinians" MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION DATE AND TIME: June 15, 1975 12:15 to 2:35 pm PLACE: Suite 311, Hotel Pierre, New York City SUBJECT: Meeting with Jewish Leaders (Klutznik Group) Kissinger: First of all, I want you to know how much I appreciate your taking off on the weekend to come here. (Author not identified) • 24 min read
MER Article "All This Time We Were Alone" Saleh Baransi was born in 1929, finished elementary school in his village of Tayba, and went to Jerusalem in 1944 to continue his secondary studies. In 1952, he was appointed a teacher in a secondary school in Tayba. In 1957 he was one of the founders of the Popular Front, which was established in I (Author not identified) • 17 min read
MER Article "I Have Not Seen a Good Day in My Life" Interview with Hilmi Zaki: Are you married? Yes, and my wife is an orphan. I chose an orphan woman so that she struggles with me the way I struggled when I was young. Her father was a lawyer -- he died when she was young. Where do you live? (Author not identified) • 10 min read
MER Article "I Am Definitely a Product of the Revolution" Interview with Ibrahim Araq: We would like to begin by asking you the usual questions about your marital status, your salary, your age and so forth. I am 31, married, but with no children. I work as an accountant at the National Library in Cairo (Dar al-Kutub). My net monthly pay is 29.77 pounds. (Author not identified) • 4 min read
MER Article What the Carter Doctrine Means to Me The following document is edited from the official transcript of a speech by Secretary of Defense Harold Brown to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City on March 6, 1980. The 1970s closed with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The 1980s opened with the ensuing debate, both in this coun (Author not identified) • 12 min read
MER Article Letter (June 1980) To the Editors: Your issue on the left forces in Iran (MERIP Reports 86) was interesting and informative, albeit somewhat dated. I found Ervand Abrahamian’s essay to be an altogether good description of the origins and development of the guerrilla movement in Iran. While I disagree with the importan (Author not identified) • 7 min read
MER Article Khomeini: "We Shall Confront the World with Our Ideology" The following speech, written by Ayatollah Khomeini on the eve of the Iranian New Year, is his most comprehensive summary of his political philosophy and world outlook. Here Khomeini lays out not only his concept of revolutionary Islam -- an aspect of his thought well-known in the West -- but also t (Author not identified) • 14 min read
MER Article Ahvaz Steel Workers' Strike The workers of the Foster Wheeler-Tehran Jonub Company, part of the Ahvaz Steel Industry Contractors Company, today ended their 56-day strike following a meeting with Hojjat-ol-Islam Jannati and Engineer Gharavi, governor of Khuzestan. Dr. Sheybani, member of the board of directors for the National (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article "Everything Positive Has Come from the Masses Below" This interview is with an Iranian woman active on the left who had lived in the US for seven years before returning to Iran in January 7979. She visited MERIP in Boston in early February 1980. Could you tell us what your impressions were when you returned to Iran a year ago? I had been away about (Author not identified) • 15 min read
MER Article Zabih, Iran's Revolutionary Upheaval Sepehr Zabih, Iran’s Revolutionary Upheaval: An Interpretive Essay (San Francisco: Alchemy Books, 1979). (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Interview with Tudeh's Kianuri Excerpts from an interview with Tudeh Party Secretary General Nureddin Kianuri by Elevtherotipia (Athens), November 27 and 28, 1979. Since it is a timely issue, I would like to begin with the occupation of the US Embassy. What is your party’s position on this issue? From the very beginning, our pa (Author not identified) • 3 min read
