Hawzah News Agency- the disintegration of Iran is a keyword repeatedly uttered by enemies. Although they deny their subversion and partition plans after every failure, both recent evidence and historical records confirm a long-term American project to dismember the country. Part of this project is narrated in the memoirs of Parviz Khosravani, archived in the Harvard Iranian Oral History Project.
The memoir of Parviz Khosravani, recounting the account of Hossein Fardoust—the Shah's childhood friend—on America's plan to partition Iran, is significant precisely because it proves that years before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the United States was already contemplating the breakup of Iran. The subtext of this memoir is an acknowledgment of a crucial fact: how the Iranian people, under the leadership of Imam Khomeini, rescued Iran from the trap of disintegration and being swallowed by foreign powers by bringing the Islamic Revolution to fruition.
In his interview with the Harvard Oral History Project on March 8, 1983, Parviz Khosravani (1922–2015) recounts:
"But I have [the memory of] one historic meeting with him [Hossein Fardoust] during [the premiership of] Bakhtiar. He telephoned me and said, 'Come tonight to the Iran Javan Club so we can have dinner together.'
I went there and saw that Dr. [Ahmadali] Sheibani, the head of the Iran Insurance School, the Iran Insurance College, and another individual named Dr. Omid, who was a friend of Fardoust, were present. I joined them. The three of us had dinner.
Then he rose and spoke to me in front of those two, saying, 'Parviz, it is in your interest to leave Iran. The situation is not good, and I fear you will be killed at the hands of the communists.' I said, 'General, my situation is very bad. I have no money, no means, no passport.' He said, 'I will arrange your passport for you. I will give you every means. Leave, because you will be killed.'
And then, this was very important—he said that the Shah must essentially leave [Iran] too. At that moment, the Shah had not yet left. Again, I imagined he was testing me. I said, 'General, are you testing me again? You know I have sworn an oath; I am standing on my feet.'
Repeatedly, over the course of these two years, Fardoust tried to come alongside me. But I had such trust in him; because of his friendship with His Late Imperial Majesty, I could not believe any word he spoke, any talk that was slightly contrary—I thought he was joking or testing me. And I truly wanted to pass such a test well.
But what was remarkable was that, that same night, he pulled out a piece of paper and said, 'His Imperial Majesty must leave. The country will also leave this form.' And he said two years earlier, the plan had been prepared and drafted in America. Then he took out his pencil and a piece of paper, drew a line across the north of Iran and said, 'This becomes a federal state.' He drew a line across Kurdistan and said, 'This becomes independent.' He then drew a line across Azerbaijan and said, 'This falls under the Russians.' Then he drew a line across the south and said, 'An international organization for oil comes into being.' Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran—that would remain 'Iran.' He then said, 'Through Baluchistan, a corridor to the Persian Gulf is also given to the Soviet Union.'"
— Excerpt from the interview of Parviz Khosravani (1922–2015), Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, Tape Two, March 8, 1983.
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