Iran has always been an interesting subject for historians and researchers.
Oral history is one way for studying Iran.
At the present time the history of Iran is being studied in various research, cultural and scientific centers of Iran, the United States and Europe, one of the methods being the oral history, which is discussed briefly in this article. In view of the difficulties and hardships existing in this field, like inaccessibility of some persons or, in some cases, documents, the sources of oral history are regarded to be the most essential instruments. The oral history is not confined to interviews, but it also includes recorded auditory materials, such as tapes containing speeches, telephone conversations, negotiations, etc. However, since a considerable part of various and increasing activities carried out in recent years to collect and present this kind of series revolves round obtaining memoirs and views of persons through interviews, so it would be apt to furnish a brief explanation about it. The act of collecting the oral history in the form of interviews, tapes and putting them in a written form, has its own special problems and limitations.