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The Persian night : Iran under the Khomeinist revolution / Amir Taheri.
Van Pelt Library DS318.825 .T34 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taheri, Amir.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.
- Iran.
- Politics and government.
- Iran--Politics and government--1997-.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 413 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, [2009]
- Contents:
- The world's number one power
- 2. The haven of jihad
- 3. The focus of the universe
- 4. The triple oxymoron
- 5. Democracy as enemy
- 6. Iran and anti-Iran
- 7. Unwelcome faith
- 8. A strange beast
- 9. The feeble ones
- 10. The prophet and women
- 11. The eternal conspirator
- 12. Esther and the king
- 13. The great satan
- 14. Five days in August
- 15. A universal ideology
- 16. Sunrise power against sunset power
- 17. Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein
- 18. West stricken, Arab stricken
- 19. State or revolution
- 20. Six centers of power
- 21. Six rival centers of power
- 22. Power points in a no-man's land
- 23. The 'nail' of the Imam
- 24. We can!
- 25. A case of national schizophrenia
- 26. Pre-emptive war or pre-emptive surrender?
- 27. Conditions for regime change
- 28. Repression and resistance
- 29. The ethnic time bomb
- 30. A heaving volcano.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-388) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594032400
- 1594032408
- OCLC:
- 221149405
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