The Persian Night

by Taheri, Amir

• ISBN13: 9781594034794
• ISBN10: 1594034796
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: Encounter Books

Summary

Who Really Rules Iran Today? Are the men in official positions merely puppets activated by hidden hands? How are decisions made in a system that appears so chaotic at first glance? Is the current political structure doomed to conflict? These are some of the questions that Amir Taheri addresses in this riveting and timely book.

Author Biography

Amir Taheri was the executive editor in chief of the daily Kayhan, Iran’s largest newspaper, for more than six years before the mullahs seized power. He has been a syndicated columnist since 1980 and has contributed to many leading newspapers and magazines in the Middle East and Europe. In the United States, his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Commentary magazine, among other publications. He lives in Paris and London.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
The World's Number-One Power	p. 3
The Haven of Jihad	p. 10
The Focus of the Universe	p. 15
The Triple Oxymoron	p. 19
Democracy as Enemy	p. 40
Iran and Anti-Iran	p. 54
Unwelcome Faith	p. 68
A Strange Beast	p. 76
The Feeble Ones	p. 106
The Prophet and Women	p. 125
The Eternal Conspirator	p. 130
Esther and the King	p. 146
The Great Satan	p. 161
Five Days in August	p. 171
A Universal Ideology	p. 188
Sunrise Power against Sunset Power	p. 197
Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein	p. 204
West Stricken, Arab Stricken	p. 215
State or Revolution	p. 224
Six Centers of Power	p. 240
Six Rival Centers of Power	p. 253
Power Points in a No-Man's Land	p. 262
The "Nail" of the Imam	p. 276
We Can!	p. 287
A Case of National Schizophrenia	p. 298
Pre-emptive War or Pre-emptive Surrender?	p. 307
Conditions for Regime Change	p. 318
Repression and Resistance	p. 331
The Ethnic Time Bomb	p. 346
A Heaving Volcano	p. 358
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 369
Notes	p. 373
Index	p. 393
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