TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Taheri,Amir
TI  -  The Persian night : :  Iran under the Khomeinist revolution / 
SN  -  9781594032400 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  -  955.054   22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York : 
PB  -  Encounter Books, 
KW  - Iran
KW  -  Politics and government
KW  -  1979-1997
KW  -  1997-
N1  - 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
ER  -