Waubonsee Community College

Defying the Iranian revolution, from a minister to the Shah to a leader of resistance, Manouchehr Ganji

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index

contains biographical information

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Defying the Iranian revolution

dictionariesbibliography

57447851

Manouchehr Ganji

from a minister to the Shah to a leader of resistance

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 e

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Last Years of the Shah's Reign; 2 Other Major Factors in the Downfall of the Shah; 3 Survival Instinct: The Struggle to Stay Alive; 4 Khomeini, Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Khatami; 5 The Roar of a Fundamentalist Typhoon; Photo essay follows page 110; 6 State Terror, War, and a Chalice of Poison; 7 Export of the Revolution; 8 A Twenty-Three-Year Record; 9 Life in Exile; 10 The Flag of Freedom Organization; 11 The Future; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index