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Andrew Scott Cooper, PhD, specializes in US national security and petroleum policy towards the region since the Second World War, the history of modern Iran, and Middle East monarchies and kingship. He is the author of two history books and teaches as an Adjunct Professor at International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He has lectured widely to audiences at a variety of venues including American presidential libraries, the US State Department, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He completed a short-term sabbatical in Shi’ism at Al Mustafa Open University in Qom, Iran.
Few events in our lifetime are as shrouded in myth and conspiracy as the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Forty-five years later, however, we now have a much clearer picture of the dramatic events that played out on the streets of Tehran before a worldwide television audience.
