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Stolen revolution: betrayal and hope in modern Iran
by Yeganeh Torbati, Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
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Fuelled by Iranians' dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah's ailing, repressive monarchy. But the revolution's leader - Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes - built a system in its place that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction, and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. In 'Stolen Revolution', award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran's recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope.
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