Persian Night: Iran Under The Khomeinist Revolution
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Amir Taheri
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New York
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: Encounter books
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, 2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 413 p.
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Code E.Book: 3173
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Index
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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.