Defying the Iranian Revolution: From a Minister to the Shah to a Leader of Resistance

by Manouchehr Ganji

Overview

Ganji stresses that the United States can and must establish a proactive policy of helping Iranians struggling for freedom both in and out of the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313016165
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/30/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	1300L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

MANOUCHEHR GANJI is the founder and Secretary General of the Flag of Freedom Organization of Iran, a democratic opposition movement against the clerical regime in Iran. He also is the founder and Secretary General of the Organization for Human Rights for Iran. Dr. Ganji was the Minister of Education of Iran from 1976 to 1979, and Professor of International Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Tehran University before the revolution. Dr. Ganji has published extensively on law, human rights, and the situation in Iran in English, Farsi, and French.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	xv
1	The Last Years of the Shah's Reign	1
2	Other Major Factors in the Downfall of the Shah	33
3	Survival Instinct: The Struggle to Stay Alive	43
4	Khomeini, Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Khatami	67
5	The Roar of a Fundamentalist Typhoon	93
6	State Terror, War, and a Chalice of Poison	111
7	Export of the Revolution	129
8	A Twenty-Three--Year Record	141
9	Life in Exile	163
10	The Flag of Freedom Organization	181
11	The Future	207
	Notes	221
	Select Bibliography	247
	Index	251