An Intriguing But Incomplete Picture
A Canadian book reduces Iranian politics to religious infighting April 2007
The Iranian revolution of 1979 was one of the most significant events of the 20th century. With demands for democracy, political freedoms, economic justice and national independence, the revolutionaries put an end to the oppressive client state of the Shah, who had been brought back to power more than two and a half decades earlier by a CIA/MI6 coup d’état against the democratically elected government of…