![]() ![]() ![]() This is the definitive history of this subject, from one of the world's principal experts. By the author’s account, Iran has long been revolutionary, undergoing a series of upheavals throughout the 20th century, including a revolution in 1908 that bound Iran to both Russia and Britain, the rise of the Mosaddegh government in 1951 and its overthrow by a CIA-engineered coup in 1953, and, of course, the events of 1979. 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. 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. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem. 'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher Educationįor some 40 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009. ![]() FULLY UPDATED THIRD EDITION, NOW WITH NEW POSTSCRIPT BY ALI ANSARI ![]()
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