The Three Paradoxes of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 is an event defined as much by its ironies and paradoxes as by its novelties and cruelties.
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Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University where he is also a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book, Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (two volumes) was just published by Syracuse University Press.
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 is an event defined as much by its ironies and paradoxes as by its novelties and cruelties.