The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge"One of America's most astute revealers of Iranian culture and identity."-Reza Aslan, The Atlantic Hailed as one of the year's best foreign policy books, Hooman Majd's latest offers dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and policies with enormous implications for world peace. Drawing on privileged access to the Iranian power elite, Majd "gives a harrowing description of the aftermath of the 2009 presidential elections in Iran" (Haleh Esfandiari). This "nimble take on Iran's fraught political landscape" (Kirkus Reviews) "sounds a dire warning to those in the West who want a democratic Iran. . . . Let us hope the President is listening" (Reza Aslan, The Atlantic). |
Contents
| 1 | |
Prologue | 41 |
My Name Is Green | 47 |
Oh Yeah? Kardeem va Shod | 93 |
sat in Babylon | 129 |
Guess Whos Coming to Dinner? | 161 |
The Good the Bad the Unclean | 211 |
Nothing Is True Everything Is Forbidden | 255 |
Acknowledgments | 273 |
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