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The Persian night : Iran under the Khomeinist revolution / Amir Taheri.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Encounter Books, c2009.Description: ix, 413 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781594032400 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1594032408 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 955.054   22
Contents:
The world’s number one power -- The haven of jihad -- The focus of the universe -- The triple oxymoron -- Democracy as enemy -- Iran and anti-Iran -- Unwelcome faith -- A strange beast -- The feeble ones -- The prophet and women -- The eternal conspirator -- Esther and the king -- The great satan -- Five days in August -- A universal ideology -- Sunrise power against sunset power -- Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein -- West stricken, Arab stricken -- State or revolution -- Six centers of power -- Six rival centers of power -- Power points in a no-man’s land -- The nail of the Imam -- We can! -- A case of national schizophrenia -- Pre-emptive war or pre-emptive surrender? -- Conditions for regime change -- Repression and resistance -- The ethnic time bomb -- A heaving volcano.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The world’s number one power -- The haven of jihad -- The focus of the universe -- The triple oxymoron -- Democracy as enemy -- Iran and anti-Iran -- Unwelcome faith -- A strange beast -- The feeble ones -- The prophet and women -- The eternal conspirator -- Esther and the king -- The great satan -- Five days in August -- A universal ideology -- Sunrise power against sunset power -- Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein -- West stricken, Arab stricken -- State or revolution -- Six centers of power -- Six rival centers of power -- Power points in a no-man’s land -- The nail of the Imam -- We can! -- A case of national schizophrenia -- Pre-emptive war or pre-emptive surrender? -- Conditions for regime change -- Repression and resistance -- The ethnic time bomb -- A heaving volcano.

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