![]() ![]() While meeting and travelling with these men, he becomes attached to them, despite the cultural and social gulf that divides him from them, and begins to hope that they will not be humiliated by the process of reform, now virtually halted by hardline mullahs. To tell the story My, he seeks out men who fought often barbarously – to consolidate the revolution in its early stages and finds that they feel betrayed by the new generation of Iranians who think only of emigrating. ![]() He befriends reformists who are elected to parliament in the wake of the presidency of Mohammad Khatami in 1997, and begins to dream about proving wrong those people who say that Islam and democracy are incompatible. Its author, an English journalist in his mid thirties working for The Economist in Tehran, converts to Islam and marries into an Iranian family. On another level, it’s a collection of miniature biographies, mostly of people who were involved in that revolution. On one level it’s a study of the Islamic Republic of Iran since the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy by frenzied mobs in 1979. THIS IS A riveting, and yet also disturbing, book. ![]()
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