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 over the past three decades. Taheri dissects a regime that has hijacked a nation of seventy million people and mobilized its resources for global "holy war" against the United States and its allies. From Khomeini's "divine mission" to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's messianic campaign in the name of the "Hidden Imam, " Iran is on a trajectory towards war.The Persian Night looks into the actual links between the Islamic Republic and terrorist networks including al-Qaeda and Hezballah; the reality of the Iranian nuclear program; the Islamic Republic's war-making capabilities and strategies; and the origins of the three Khomeinist phobias—women, Jews, and the United States.But as Taheri demonstrates, Khomeinism is not Iran. Today there are two competing Irans: the one manifested in the negative Khomeinist energies that have dragged the nation into its dark night; the other drawing from the long and celebrated history of Persian culture while extending a friendly hand to the West.Successive U.S. administrations, along with most European governments, have failed to understand the reality of the Khomeinist regime and at times have even aided its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear arsenal. Taheri provides a set of imaginative suggestions for more effective ways of dealing with Iran.
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Table of contents
- 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
- 21 - Six Rival Centers of Power
- 22 - 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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