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 IDEAS
Musaddiq’s conception of constitutionalism
Based on his arguments before the court that tried him in 1953
Keyvan Tabari
September 17 (26 of Shahrivar) is when the deposition of Mohammad Musaddiq began for his trial after his overthrow in the year 1953. In the current centennial year of the 1906 Iranian Constitution, at the Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies in London, I presented a summary of the attached paper on Musaddiq's conception of constitutionalism. I submit it herewith for publication in Iranian.com as an appropriate contemporary forum most accessible to interested readers and hospitable to interactive response. This piece reflects the perspective of a lawyer on constitutional issues involved in treating the legacy of a singular person about whom nearly all have opinions. Controversies surrounding the life and myth of Musaddiq only highlight his immense significance, especially for secular liberal opposition in Iran >>>
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Why do they hate us?
Interview with Stephen Kinzer, author of "Overthrow" and "All the Shah's Men"
Fariba Amini
Stephen Kinzer is well known in the Iranian community. His book All the Shah’s Men which described the 1953 coup d’etat in Iran reads like a spy novel and won praise both in Iran and the US. Stephen received hundreds of emails and letters from people all over the world including a man who was only a little boy in Philadelphia, when Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh went to the Liberty Bell, offering the Iranian nation’s friendship for America. That little boy had delivered a bouquet of flowers to the then Prime Minister of Iran. A long time correspondence with the NY Times, he has now left the Times to teach journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. He was the Times bureau chief in Istanbul, covered wars in Nicaragua, Guatemala as well as Serbia. Now, S. Kinzer is out with a new book, Overthrow: America’s century of regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq >>>
 LESSONS
Miraase
Mossadegh
Mossadegh's legacy and today's struggle for a secular democracy
Ramin Kamran
 MOSSADEGH
Chand
deedaar
Observing Mossadegh in private and public
Parviz Khatibi
Introduction by Ramin Kamran
 ELECTIONS
President
Mossaddegh
I hereby announce my candidacy for the president of the Islamic
Republic of Iran
Cyrus Mossaddegh
The greatest threat Iran faces today is America, and if the next
President of Iran does not understand the Americans, then he or
she is putting Iran in great danger. We must all agree that we
cannot ignore the American military forces that are in close proximity
and we must also agree that military confrontation must be avoided
at all costs --- and to do that we must communicate with the Americans.
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Mossadegh
Reconstructing the story of a coup that changed history
Masoud Kazemzadeh
BOOK
Letters
from Ahmad Abad
Mossadegh's letters to his trusted friend and lawyer
Fariba Amini
HISTORY
Az
folklore siyaasi taa taarikh-nevisi
1953 coup: Fact & fiction
Ramin Kamran
HISTORY
Baazgoshaaee-ye
parvandeye 28 Mordaad
Interview with Mahmoud Kashani
From ISNA
LEADER
Mossadegh-e
Dovom
Who is/are the next Mossadegh?
By Ali Nazer
COMMENT
Leave
us alone
'Noble' and 'dignity' do not apply to the behavior of the
Qajar rulers
By Mahan Esfahani
JAB
Liaaghat
nadaashtim
Those "good-for-nothing" Qajars
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
POINT
Iruni-baazi
Settle the Mossadegh issue & forget about the A-bomb
By Alidad Vassigh
POINTS
Replies
in earnest
On the complete idiot's guide to the CIA
REVIEW
Notable
success!
A complete idiot's guide to the CIA
By Moe
OPINION
Mossadegh
saved the Shah
The prime minister's inaction paved the way for the Shah's
return to power in 1953
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
OPINION
Forgotten
fighters
We must recognize the huge sacrifices made by thousands
of "Tudehies" for a better Iran
By Babak Khosravi
POLITICS
We
need a break, for good
Khalil Maleki's letter to Mohammad Mossadegh and
the godless road ahead
By Jahanshah Javid
1953
COUP
Let
it rest
It's
been 50 years
already! Move
on, as other
countries have
By An Iranian
MOSSADEGH
The
day democracy died
August 19, 1953
By Fariba Amini
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ham qaader neest...
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Don't
call me "Sir"
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By Fariba Amini
May 2001
Our
best bet
Tea with former British ambassador to Iran
By Cyrus Kadivar
July 13, 2000
Just
like that
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May 26, 2000
Unedited CIA history of 53
coup
Cryptome
CIA history
of 1953 coup
Official document published in The New York Times
April 17, 2000
Lost? My
foot
The CIA claims 1953 coup files have been "destroyed or lost"
June 1997
Iranian
of the century
Internet survey
January 3, 2000
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of Mordad
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Eight of Five of Thirty two
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August 1998
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comments and recollections
Letters
"The
Evolution of Iran's Oil Industry"
Excerpts from a book by Gholamreza Afkhami (in Persian)
August 1998
Man of the
Year
Time magazine, 1951
Text
of 1953 radio address
... few months before the CIA-backed
coup
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