Defying The Iranian Revolution

Author : Manouchehr Ganji
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313016165

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Defying the Iranian Revolution by Manouchehr Ganji Pdf

The realities of Iranian life are far more harrowing than most people imagine from the outside. Ganji paints a portrait of duplicitous clerics arbitrarily arresting, torturing, mutilating, and executing citizens, all in the name of Islamic Justice. A system of apartheid has been instituted against women. While 60% of the population lives below the poverty line, the mullah regime has hoarded billions of dollars in accounts and properties in Europe, Canada, and Japan. Roughly 70% of the population is under 30 years of age and opposes the regime. In the year of 2001 alone, 220,000 people—mostly educated youth—left the country in search of better lives. Ganji stresses that the best defense against terrorism is offense, and that the United States can and must establish a proactive policy of helping Iranians struggling for the freedom of Iran, in and out of the country. Western policies toward the Iranian mullah regime have thus far been reactionary rather than proactive. The regime in Iran has been an incubator of international terrorism, aiding and abetting international terrorist groups in and out of the Middle East. The author argues that now is the time for the United States to substitute rhetoric with action in policies toward the ruling clerics in Iran.

Author : John D. Stempel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081324878

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Inside the Iranian Revolution by John D. Stempel Pdf

In this Second Edition of Inside the Iranian Revolution, first published in 1981, author John Stempel describes his experience and insight as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in Tehran from 1975-1979. He then continues with an updated chapters to describe what we can draw from the experiences of three decades ago and apply to the current diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and Iran. "John Stempel is a Foreign Service officer who was stationed in Tehran through the early stages of the Iranian revolution; he left four months before the hostages were taken. Mr. Stempel explains the strength and weaknesses that accumulated through the Shah's reign. Among the latter, he says, was the Shah's alternating between attempts to build genuine political support for his regime and reliance on the repressive tactics of his secret police. Mr. Stempel's concluding chapters are effective. He suggests that the Shah might have survived by being simultaneously more liberal and more ruthless-by offering more than a token of political participation to opposition groups, but then punishing those who would not support the liberalized regime. On the American side, Mr. Stempel points out the slowness to develop intelligence sources among opposition groups and the contradictory signals sent to the Shah. Mr. Stempel also implies that, once the hostage situation reached deadlock, the United States should have come more quickly to the recognition that military force was necessary." -- Amazon.com.

Author : Rouhollah K. Ramazani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082029906

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Iran's Revolution by Rouhollah K. Ramazani Pdf

The recent uproar over the publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has once again focused world attention on the fundamentalist Iranian Revolution. In this concise, clear, readable volume, six of the world's leading authorities describe and analyze key aspects of the Revolution. Iran's Revolution provides an excellent overview and analysis of the Iranian Revolution at the ten-year mark.

Author : Suzanne Maloney
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815737940

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The Iranian Revolution at Forty by Suzanne Maloney Pdf

How Iran—and the world around it—have changed in the four decades since a revolutionary theocracy took power Iran's 1979 revolution is one of the most important events of the late twentieth century. The overthrow of the Western-leaning Shah and the emergence of a unique religious government reshaped Iran, dramatically shifted the balance of power in the Middle East and generated serious challenges to the global geopolitical order—challenges that continue to this day. The seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran later that same year and the ensuing hostage crisis resulted in an acrimonious breach between America and Iran that remains unresolved to this day. The revolution also precipitated a calamitous war between Iran and Iraq and an expansion of the U.S. military's role in maintaining security in and around the Persian Gulf. Forty years after the revolution, more than two dozen experts look back on the rise of the Islamic Republic and explore what the startling events of 1979 continue to mean for the volatile Middle East as well as the rest of the world. The authors explore the events of the revolution itself; whether its promises have been kept or broken; the impact of clerical rule on ordinary Iranians, especially women; the continuing antagonism with the United States; and the repercussions not only for Iran's immediate neighborhood but also for the broader Middle East. Complete with a helpful timeline and suggestions for further reading, this book helps put the Iranian revolution in historical and geopolitical perspective, both for experts who have long studied the Middle East and for curious readers interested in fallout from the intense turmoil of four decades ago.

Author : Sadegh Haghighat
Publisher : Alhoda UK
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Iran
ISBN : 9644722299

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Six Theories about the Islamic Revolution's Victory by Sadegh Haghighat Pdf

Author : Charles Kurzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058253264

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The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran by Charles Kurzman Pdf

A 1978 CIA analysis firmly concluded that the shah of Iran would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future. One hundred days later the shah was overthrown by a popular revolution. The CIA was not alone in its myopia, as Kurzman reveals; Iranians themselves considered a revolution inconceivable until it actually occurred.

Author : Enver M. Koury,Charles G. MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081363488

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Revolution in Iran by Enver M. Koury,Charles G. MacDonald Pdf

Author : Asaf Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Iran
ISBN : UOM:39015009138960

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Islamic Iran by Asaf Hussain Pdf

Author : Parviz Daneshvar
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0312162707

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Revolution in Iran by Parviz Daneshvar Pdf

This book offers a critical analysis of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. It analyses the causes of revolution in Iran and focuses on the upheavals that led to the fall of the Shah. It provides the reader with an appreciation of the interplay of forces in the making of the 1979 revolution and the emergence of an Islamic regime. The concluding chapter assesses the Iranian Revolution from a theoretical perspective and examines the causes of this major event.

Author : Misagh Parsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066090450

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Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution by Misagh Parsa Pdf

Author : Michael Axworthy
Publisher : Penguin Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0141990333

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Revolutionary Iran by Michael Axworthy Pdf

FULLY UPDATED SECOND EDITION 'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher Education For some 40 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem. But with Iran's continuing commitment to a nuclear programme and its reputation as a trouble-maker in Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere, this is unlikely any time soon. An unending stream of assertions about the revolution's finally running down continue to be defied by events, and Iran's institutions are still formidable. This is the definitive history of this subject, from one of the world's principal experts.

Author : Mansoor Moaddel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0231078668

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Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution by Mansoor Moaddel Pdf

Thirteen years after the Shah of Iran was swept away in a tide of revolutionary fervor, the cruelty and brutality of the new regime remains shocking. In Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution, Mansoor Moaddel provides the theoretical underpinnings for a richer and clearer understanding of Iran's tumultuous recent history. Analyzing the causes and processes of the revolution through the prisms of class, politics, and ideology, Moaddel argues that the currently dominant theories of revolution insufficiently address the requisite question of ideology: "Ideology is not simply another factor that adds an increment to the causes of revolution. Ideology is the constitutive feature of revolution." Moaddel explains how revolutionary conditions in Iran were created by a combination of state economic policies favoring international capital - which enraged segments of the powerful bourgeoisie - and fluctuations in the world economy that financially weakened Iran. But the central element of the revolutionary crisis of the late 1970s was the development of Shi'i revolutionary discourse as the dominant ideology. As liberalism and communism declined, the potent discourse of revolutionary Islam - with its martyrdom, its religious rituals, its symbolic structures - formed a powerful conduit for popular mobilization. Karl Marx likened the French Revolution to a gigantic broom which swept away all the "medieval rubbish." Drawing from his abundant theoretical, historical, and sociological knowledge, Moaddel illuminates the process by which the gigantic broom of the Iranian Revolution "swept all the medieval rubbish back in."

Author : Pouya Alimagham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108475440

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Contesting the Iranian Revolution by Pouya Alimagham Pdf

Examines the last forty years of Iranian and Middle-Eastern history through the prism of the Green Uprisings of 2009.

Author : Janet Afary,Kevin B. Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226007878

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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution by Janet Afary,Kevin B. Anderson Pdf

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur. During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault traveled to Iran, met with leaders like Ayatollah Khomeini, and wrote a series of articles on the revolution. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution is the first book-length analysis of these essays on Iran, the majority of which have never before appeared in English. Accompanying the analysis are annotated translations of the Iran writings in their entirety and the at times blistering responses from such contemporaneous critics as Middle East scholar Maxime Rodinson as well as comments on the revolution by feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. In this important and controversial account, Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson illuminate Foucault's support of the Islamist movement. They also show how Foucault's experiences in Iran contributed to a turning point in his thought, influencing his ideas on the Enlightenment, homosexuality, and his search for political spirituality. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution informs current discussion on the divisions that have reemerged among Western intellectuals over the response to radical Islamism after September 11. Foucault's provocative writings are thus essential for understanding the history and the future of the West's relationship with Iran and, more generally, to political Islam. In their examination of these journalistic pieces, Afary and Anderson offer a surprising glimpse into the mind of a celebrated thinker.

Author : Leila Alikarami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788318860

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Women and Equality in Iran by Leila Alikarami Pdf

Iran's continued retention of discriminatory laws stands in stark contrast to the advances Iranian women have made in other spheres since the Revolution in 1979. Leila Alikarami here aims to determine the extent to which the actions of women's rights activists have led to a significant change in their legal status. She argues that while Iranian women have not yet obtained legal equality, the gender bias of the Iranian legal system has been successfully challenged and has lost its legitimacy. More pertinently, the social context has become more prepared to accommodate legal rights for women. Highlighting the key challenges that proponents of gender equality face in the Muslim context, Alikarami attempts to ascertain the causes of Iran's failure to ratify the CEDAW and questions whether and to what extent interpretations of Islamic principles prevent Iran from doing so. Applying feminist legal theory to contemporary Iran, Alikarami's approach re-evaluates the underlying principles that have shaped the struggle for equal rights between the sexes.