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BL
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1089477
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bc10724
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| Language of Document
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English
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| Main Entry
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Taheri, Amir.
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| Title & Author
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The Persian Night : : Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Encounter Books,, 2010.
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1 online resource (411 pages)
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| ISBN
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9781594035524
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: 1594035520
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| Contents
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Praise; Title Page; Preface; 1 -- The World's Number-One Power; 2 -- The Haven of Jihad; 3 -- The Focus of the Universe; 4 -- The Triple Oxymoron; 5 -- Democracy as Enemy; 6 -- Iran and Anti-Iran; 7 -- Unwelcome Faith; 8 -- A Strange Beast; 9 -- The Feeble Ones; 10 -- The Prophet and Women; 11 -- The Eternal Conspirator; 12 -- Esther and the King; 13 -- The Great Satan; 14 -- Five Days in August; 15 -- A Universal Ideology; 16 -- Sunrise Power against Sunset Power; 17 -- Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein; 18 -- West Stricken, Arab Stricken; 19 -- State or Revolution; 20 -- Six Centers of Power.
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21 -- Six Rival Centers of Power22 -- Power Points in a No-Man's Land; 23 -- The "Nail" of the Imam; 24 -- We Can!; 25 -- A Case of National Schizophrenia; 26 -- Pre-emptive War or Pre-emptive Surrender?; 27 -- Conditions for Regime Change; 28 -- Repression and Resistance; 29 -- The Ethnic Time Bomb; 30 -- A Heaving Volcano; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; Notes; Index; Copyright Page.
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| Abstract
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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. An anatomy of one of the most secretive regimes in the contemporary world, The Persian Night traces the historical, religious, cultural, and political roots of the Khomeinist revolution and analyzes the way it has grown into a pseudo-religious ideology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.
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HISTORY-- Middle East-- General.
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Politics and government
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Iran, Politics and government, 1979-1997.
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Iran, Politics and government, 1997-
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Iran.
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| Dewey Classification
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955.05/42955.054955.0542
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| LC Classification
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DS318.825 .T34 2010
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