Reminiscences of Theodore L. Eliot, 1986.

Biographical Note

Diplomat

Scope and Contents

Early experiences in United States Foreign Service; Financial Officer of U.S. Embassy, Tehran; political and economic problems facing regime of the Shah of Iran in 1960s; U.S. defense credit program to Iran; impressions of the Shah, Julius Holmes, Armin Meyer; problems of the Shah's reform programs; Iranian dealings with the Soviet Union; Country Director for Iran, U.S. State Department, 1966-1969; relations between the Shah and U.S. oil companies; British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, 1971; Shah's visits to U.S.; U.S. policy towards Iran during early stages of Nixon administration; Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973

Subjects

• Burr, William, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Diplomats--Interviews.
• Eliot, Theodore L.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Iran--Economic conditions--1945-1979.
• Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
• Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
• Iran--Politics and government--1941-1979.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
• United States. Department of State.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Oral History of Iran Archives, 1987