Prologue: "ten days of dawn" (Daheh-ye Fajr) -- The background: Ma chegoneh ma shodim? ("How did we become what we are?") -- The 1970s and the slide to revolution -- Like the person he ought to be: Islamic republic, 1979-80 -- Jang-e Tahmili: the imposed war, 1980-88 -- The end of the war, the death of the emam, and reconstruction: Khamenei and Rafsanjani, 1988-97 -- Bim-e mowj (Fear of the wave): Khatami and reform, 1997-2005 -- Everything must change, so that everything can stay the same: Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, 2005-12.
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Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Tehran in February 1979 was a key moment in post-War international politics. This book offers an account of Iran's unique history and makes sense of events often misunderstood by outsiders. It is an exploration of Iran's development since 1979 into an unpredictable pseudo-democracy.