Friday, December 10, 2021
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

QUICKLINKS
0:00 Introduction
2:09 Condoleezza Rice, Tad and Dianne Taube Director, Hoover Institution
7:57 Noelle E. Cockett, President, Utah State University
11:14 Hamid Moghadam, Chairman and CEO, Prologis
16.08 Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State; distinguished visiting fellow, Hoover Institution
18.55 Discussion with Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to the Russian Federation; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Abbas Milani, research fellow, Hoover Institution
40:27 Abbas Milani
42:30 Eric Wakin, deputy director, Hoover Institution; director, Library & Archives
52:22 Panel presentations chaired by Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science
1:07:04 Arash Azizi, NYU
1:20:05 Robert Steele, London School of Economics and Political Science
1:32:28 Maaike Warnaar, University lecturer, Leiden University
1:42:54 Q&A with panel presenters
2:05:12 Abbas Milani concluding remarks, delivers eulogy, and reads remarks from Princess Manaz Zahedi

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives hosts "Ardeshir Zahedi and the Zahedi Archives at Hoover" on Friday, December 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PT.

Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi is considered one of the most influential figures in modern Iranian politics. He was the last Iranian ambassador to the U.S. under the Shah who also came to personally know nine American presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush senior, and Reagan. In 2018, the archive of Ardeshir Zahedi opened to the public for research. A selection of key documents from the collection was published in A Window into Modern Iran: The Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives (Hoover Press, 2019).

In light of recent events, this online symposium will be held in memory of Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, who passed away on Thursday, November 18, 2021, in Switzerland.

Please join Hoover fellows Henry Kissinger, Abbas Milani and Michael McFaul; Hoover director Condoleezza Rice; Eric Wakin, director of The Hoover Institution Library & Archives; and other speakers and panelists to talk about the singular collection of Zahedi's papers and discuss Ambassador Zahedi's life and work.

SPEAKERS
Noelle E. Cockett, President, Utah State University*
Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State; distinguished visiting fellow, Hoover Institution*
Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to the Russian Federation; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Abbas Milani, research fellow, Hoover Institution
Hamid Moghadam, Chairman and CEO, Prologis
Condoleezza Rice, Tad and Dianne Taube Director, Hoover Institution*
Eric Wakin, deputy director, Hoover Institution; director, Library & Archives

PANELISTS
Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science (Chair)
Arash Azizi, NYU
Robert Steele, London School of Economics and Political Science
Maaike Warnaar, University lecturer, Leiden University