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008			100308s2009 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2008035220
020			_a 9781594032400 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a 1594032408 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035			_a(Sirsi) u4510
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082	0	0	_a 955.054 _2 22
100	1		_a Taheri, Amir. _98988
245	1	4	_a The Persian night : _b Iran under the Khomeinist revolution / _c Amir Taheri.
260			_aNew York : _b Encounter Books, _c c2009.
300			_aix, 413 p. ; _c 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aThe 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.
651		0	_aIran _x Politics and government _y 1979-1997. _98989
651		0	_aIran _x Politics and government _y 1997- _98990
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