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When Safavid dynasty collapsed, Iran faced with riot for more than eight decades and finally Agha Mohammad Khan took over the whole country defeating other rivals and champions. He took over the country, chose Tehran as the capital, and assumed himself the successor of the Safavids to revive the values of Safavid era. Taking a descriptive-analytical method, the study used library resources to identify the politics and governing method of Agha Mohammad Khan in his reign and sought to answer the following questions: What was Agha Mohammad Khan’s perception of politics and governing? What goals he pursued in domestic and foreign policies? As an answer to the questions one can say that seemingly Agha Mohammad Khan pursued his goals in politics and governing through military actions and the majority of his domestic relations and foreign policies were based on eliminating rivals and fighting against other countries.

It was during the premiership of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh that the pursuit of independence and freedom, and tolerance of dissent gained momentum as dominant discourse, challenging part of despotic discourse of the royal court. As a result, Iran’s political spectrum became more pluralistic, the Shah’s power was restricted, political parties became diversified, power became legal and democratic, and the dissent enjoyed maximum tolerance on the part of the government. Enacting the Press Law not only stipulated maximum tolerance of the dissent, but also state-run organizations were banned to bring an action against the press criticizing the government or the prime minister. This is why Mosaddegh period is known in contemporary history as “the age of free press”. The dominant discourse in that period encompassed independence, freedom, civil sovereignty, political participation and public welfare. During his 28 months of premiership, Mosaddegh administered the country almost without petrodollars. Unaffected by lack of oil incomes, the crisis-stricken, stagnating and bankrupt national economy regained its footing and became an example of a balanced economy. These indexes indicate that the collection of Mosaddegh’s plans, achievements, and beliefs during 28 months of premiership had maximum compatibility with criteria of political development.

In historiographical study of memoirs, two things should be noticed: Interval between the events and their recording and the role of author in the events. Memoirs of Asadollah-e Alam is considerable in both of these aspects. They include negotiations in the Pahlavi court both about domestic and foreign affairs. This study tries illustrate these subjects in seventh volume of Alam’s memories through a descriptive-analytical approach to clarify Pahlavi’s domestic and foreign policies. The role of court in elections and interfering in all political, cultural, academic and economic affairs domestically and direct interference are the main findings in this study.