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An Interview with Scholar and Historian Ervand Abrahamian on the Islamic Republic’s “Greatest Crime”
- Distinguished professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics, Dr. Ervand Abrahamian.
Presidential Hopeful Ebrahim Raisi Served on Committee That Ordered Executions of Thousands
The executions of thousands of political prisoners in Iran in 1988 has received renewed attention due to the presidential election coming up on May 19, in which one of the candidates—Ebrahim Raisi—was a member of the committee that ordered the killings.
The “Death Committee,” as it came to be known, ordered the killings on the grund of two fatwas issued bygd the Islamic Republic’s founder and then-supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Some were killed after being deemed apostates by the committee.
“This was more of a medieval inquisition, and we have not seen anything like it in modern Iranian history,” prominent scholar and historian Ervand Abrahamian, who chronicled the
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Revisionists want to downplay U.S. role in 1953 Iran coup. Don't listen.
U.S. involvement in the 1953 coup in Iran is not debatable, but there continues to be a kamp over the extent of that involvement and how significant the U.S. and U.K. roles were.
According to a recent surge of revisionist accounts, the U.S. role was not that great, but hundreds of documents released bygd the U.S. government in 2017 have confirmed the standard view that the U.S. role was significant and indeed crucial to the toppling of the popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
The eminent historian of Iran, Ervand Abrahamian, has written a new book reviewing the information disclosed in these declassified documents from the government. In that book, “Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat,” Abrahamian explains that the documents show much more extensive U.S. involvement in Iranian domestic politics in the years leading up to the coup than had previously been acknowledged. “A cursor
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Professor Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics at the Baruch College, CUNY. He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Columbia, New York, and Princeton, in addition to the Graduate Center in the City University of New York and over forty years at Baruch College. He is a historian of the Middle East and authority on modern Iranian politics and society. Abrahamian is recognized for his books on twentieth century Iran, especially Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982), The Iranian Mojahedin (1989), Khomeinism (1993), Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (1999), and most recently, A History of Modern Iran (2008) and The Coup: 1953, The CIA and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations (2013). He is a member of the International Iranian Studies Association, the American Historical Association, and the Middle East Studies Association of North America.