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Conversations in Tehran / Jean-Daniel Lafond & Fred A. Reed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lafond, Jean-Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iran--Politics and government--1997-.
- Iran.
- Politics and government.
- Iran--Social conditions--1997-.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, BC : Talonbooks, 2006.
- Summary:
- In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A. Reed (Persian Postcards: Iran after Khomeini) visited Iran on the eve of the parliamentary elections that were to seal the political defeat of the reform movement. They had come to interview several of the men and women who had propelled Mohammad Khatami to the presidency in 1997, with a mission to rebuild a civil society in Iran under the banner of human rights, democracy, free speech, and a renewed dialogue of civilizations.
- This is their report: Iran's once lively press has been all but silenced, the country's most outspoken journalists imprisoned, and, argues Mohsen Kadivar, one of the regime's sharpest critics, the shah's crown has now merely been replaced by the mullah's turban. Most surprising of all, however, was the populist bitterness expressed against the now beleaguered reform movement. Too many promises had gone unfulfilled, too many commitments neglected.
- President Khatami's reform movement had failed to improve the people's livelihood. Worse, it would not, or could not, defend its strongest supporters against assaults by those determined to stop a democratic restructuring of the modern world's first religious state. It was, said Said Hajjarian, the reform strategist semi-paralyzed in an assassination attempt, "too late": Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his radical cohorts were already lurking in the shadows.
- Contents:
- Fear of the Wave 9
- Fear of the Other 12
- Iran: The Other Revolution 25
- The Living and the Dead 29
- That Obscure Object 31
- Where's the Meat? 35
- Labyrinths 43
- Weighing Words 48
- A Marked Man 52
- The Voices of Silence 62
- The Messenger 65
- The Heart of Darkness 71
- Like Father, Like Daughter 81
- Follow Me 86
- Dirt on Their Hands 95
- Headscarf Blues 103
- New Waves 109
- Like a Snake 116
- The Metamorphosis of the Hairdresser 124
- A.K.A. Hassan 129
- Reform, You Say? 140
- God or the Republic 149
- Appearances Can Be Deceiving 157
- Body Language 175
- The Winds of Fate 184
- The Philosopher and the Future 191
- "Too Late" 199
- Persons Mentioned 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0889225508
- 9780889225503
- OCLC:
- 70777748
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