Items - Digital Archive of the Middle East

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.