Reign Of The AyatollahsFive years after the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, Iran remains convulsed by political upheaval and embroiled in international conflict. Shock waves from the Iranian events have stirred unrest in the Middle East from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia, fed Islamic revivalism elsewhere in the Islamic world, and undermined the American position in this strategic region. Meanwhile, amid all this bewildering upheaval, the revolution has given birth to the modern world's first quasi-theocratic state run by orthodox clerics according to Islamic law. This book is a riveting analysis of the Iranian revolution, its economic, religious, and social turmoil, and its international consequences. |
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... Iraqi deputy prime minister , Tarik Aziz , in April 1980 , he arrested the leaders of al - Da'wa and hundreds of Shi'a activists . He rounded up over 25,000 Iranians resident in Iraq and unceremoniously dumped them on the Iranian border ...
... Iraqi deputy prime minister , Tarik Aziz , in April 1980 , he arrested the leaders of al - Da'wa and hundreds of Shi'a activists . He rounded up over 25,000 Iranians resident in Iraq and unceremoniously dumped them on the Iranian border ...
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... Iraqi troops made steady , if slow , progress against stiff Iranian resis- tance . Khorramshahr fell at the end of October . Abadan , then Susan- gerd , were besieged ; at the end of November , the Iraqis opened a second front farther ...
... Iraqi troops made steady , if slow , progress against stiff Iranian resis- tance . Khorramshahr fell at the end of October . Abadan , then Susan- gerd , were besieged ; at the end of November , the Iraqis opened a second front farther ...
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... Iraqi forces across a wide front in the Dezful area , farther north . In May , a turning point , they routed the Iraqi army and recaptured the port of Khorramshahr . Smaller victories followed . When these campaigns began , Iraq held ...
... Iraqi forces across a wide front in the Dezful area , farther north . In May , a turning point , they routed the Iraqi army and recaptured the port of Khorramshahr . Smaller victories followed . When these campaigns began , Iraq held ...
Contents
The Collapse of the Old Order | 9 |
Khomaini The Idol Smasher | 19 |
Bazargan A Knife Without the Blade | 52 |
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