Digital Archive of the Middle East

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• "Basharat, Basharat, Basharat..." — The Party-Building of Iran's "Worker Communism" with "Noble" Khalq-Parcham Cadres of Afghanistan
  A critical pamphlet subtitled "A Critique of Farhad Basharat's Interview Regarding the Formation of the Afghanistan Bureau of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran," issued by supporters of the Communist Party of Afghanistan. It responds to an interview with Farhad Basharat published in Issue 16 of Internationalist (Enternasional), the journal of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran (Hekmatist), in Azar 1373 SH (November 1994). The pamphlet criticises Basharat — described as a founding figure involved with the Worker-Communist Parties of Iran and Iraq and reportedly a prospective Afghanistan branch — for establishing an "Afghanistan Bureau" of the Iranian party in coordination with former cadres of the pro-Soviet Khalq and Parcham factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, framing this as a betrayal of the Maoist-derived Afghan communist tradition (Sho'la-ye Jawid lineage) that had historically opposed the PDPA as revisionist.
• "Resistance", Quarterly English Defense Publication of the Iranian Students Association in the United States (IASUS), Volume 4 no.2, June 76: Shah's Nature Exposed, I.S.A. Gained Community Support
  A 44-page publication of "Resistance", Volume 4 no.2
• "Resistance", Quarterly English Defense Publication of the Iranian Students Association in the United States (IASUS), Volume 5 no.4, July 77. Special Issue: Farah's Trip Exposed
  A 28-page publication of "Resistance", Volume 5 no.4 (July 1977), dedicated to the visit of Empress Farah of Iran to the USA, against which the IASUS and others led public protests.
• "Zan" (Woman) — 8 March 1998 Issue: A Brief Look into the History of the Eighth of March
  An issue of Zan ("Woman"), the periodical organ of the Committee of the 8th of March, dated 8 March 1998 (International Women's Day). The lead article, "A Brief Look into the History of the Eighth of March," traces the origins of International Women's Day, opening with the 1857 New York garment workers' protest by women textile workers against long hours, harsh conditions, and low pay, and the subsequent adoption of the date as a rallying point for the international socialist and labour women's movement — including the 1907 wave of demonstrations tied to women's suffrage and the broader push for women's political, social, and economic equality.
• A Look at Iran's Role in the Arabian Gulf
• A Look at the Role of Iran in the Arabian Gulf
  Booklet providing a critical look at Iran's involvement in the Gulf, particularly in relation to support for Oman in its conflict with the PFLOAG. Published by the National Union of Kuwaiti Students (al-Ittiḥād al-Waṭanī li-Ṭalabat al-Kuwayt).
• A photo of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in Mahabad
  KDPI leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou delivering a speech in Mahabad, 20 November 1979
• A photograph of Persepolis, Iran
  A photograph of Persepolis, with handwritten text on the back.
• A poster by Komala
  A small poster had issued by Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, dated 1368 (in the Shamsi calendar, therefore 1989), to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the founding of the communist party of Iran.
• A Woman on the Path to Liberation, Vol. 1
  56-page booklet published by the Sâzmân-e Mojâhedin-e Khalgh-e Irân, or People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and compiled from articles on women's social status in Iran, first published in the PMOI newspaper 'Mujāhid.'
• Abdollah Entezam speech on the Iranian oil industry, 1960
  Text of the speech delivered by Mr Abdollah Entezam, Chairman of the NIOC Board of Directors, at a press conference held on Sunday 14th February 1960
• Agribusiness Orientation to Iran and the Dez Irrigation Project. Agribusiness Bulletin 4 (1968)
  42-page booklet published by the American Development and Resources Corporation on opportunities for investment in Iranian agricultural development, especially the Dez Irrigation Project in Khuzestan Province, western Iran.
• An Address on Agriculture by Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi to the US Near East Foundation (1955)
  Text of an address delivered by the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Near East Foundation, New York, on 7 February 1955, providing insights into his approach to the modernization of Iranian agriculture as well as US involvement in the work of the NEF. Annotated by Joshua Thew
• An Iranian Leftist Intellectual Visits World War II Soviet Central Asia (1944)
  An account of a visit to Uzbekistan by Said Nafisi (1895-1966) in December 1944, published in 'Payām-i naw'. Translated from the original Persian and annotated by James Pickett.
• An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini [Nāmah-ʼi sar'gushādah bih Āyat Allāh Khumaynī]
  70-page Persian booklet, titled 'An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini' [Nāmah-ʼi sar'gushādah bih Āyat Allāh Khumaynī], written by Firaydūn Kishāvarz and published by the Tudeh Party.
• Apartheid in Iran leaflet
  Single sheet leaflet entitled 'Apartheid in Iran', issued in 1989 by an unknown opposition group, that argues that 'by separating men from women as second class citizens', the Islamic Republic has created a form of apartheid comparable to that in South Africa
• Artist at work painting a banner for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( or Pasdaran), Tehran 1985.
  Photograph by Edith Maubec of an Iranian artist painting a banner for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( or Pasdaran), beneath a portrait of Ruhollah Khomeini, taken in Tehran in 1985.
• Baghdad Observer, Vol. VIII, No. 4063
  Complete eight-page issue of Baghdad Observer (Vol. VIII, No. 4063), published on 2 May 1981. The issue contains reports on Iraqi military operations during the Iran–Iraq War, nationwide May Day celebrations, labour and trade union activities, higher education and university development, Iraqi literature and culture, religious and political commentary, Arab economic and mineral resource conferences, regional and international affairs, and national and international sports coverage. The issue reflects political, social, economic, cultural, and military developments in Iraq and the wider Middle East during the early 1980s.
• Bloody Realities and the Epic of Resistance — On the Tenth Anniversary of the Massacre of Political Prisoners at the Hands of the Islamic Republic's Executioners
  A compilation issued by the Committee of the 8th of March, Summer 1377 SH (1998), marking the tenth anniversary of the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran. As stated in its own preface, the volume gathers excerpts from books and various documents recording testimony on political prisoners held in Islamic Republic prisons, compiled to commemorate the women and men who, the compilers state, faced imprisonment, torture, and execution with conviction in the eventual victory of the people. The preface directly addresses the 1988 executions, describing them as having been carried out on Ayatollah Khomeini's direct order in the weeks following Iran's acceptance of the ceasefire ending the Iran–Iraq War, with successive groups of prisoners sent to execution within a few months; the text names Khomeini, Khamenei, Rafsanjani, and Khatami in connection with the killings and explicitly rejects the government's subsequent "national reconciliation" framing. The compilation states that many of the political prisoners of the period were women, subjected to what the text describes as compounded persecution and abuse, and that the collection specifically foregrounds women's conditions of captivity and resistance, extending beyond political prisoners to the situation of women in Islamic Republic prisons more broadly.
• Bloody Realities and the Legend of Resistance — On the Tenth Anniversary of the Execution of Political Prisoners by the Executioners of the Islamic Republic (Turkish Edition)
  The Turkish-language edition of the Committee of the 8th of March's Summer 1998 compilation marking the tenth anniversary of the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran (title: "Kanlı Gerçekler ve Direniş Efsanesi"). The text situates the executions within the broader repression of the Islamic Republic, references women's roles in resistance, and connects the anniversary to the post-Iran–Iraq War political context.
• Bolshevik Message, 2nd series, no. 4 (April 1986)
  Paper of the Communist Party of Iran.
• Bolshevik Message, 2nd series, no. 5 (July 1986)
  Paper of the Communist Party of Iran.
• Bolshevik Message, 2nd series, no. 6 (September 1986)
  Paper of the Communist Party of Iran.
• Bolshevik Message, no. 1 (June 1983)
  Paper of the Communist Party of Iran.
• Bolshevik Message, no. 10 (August 1984)
  Paper of the Communist Party of Iran.