ISBN10: 0889224439, ISBN13: 9780889224438, [publisher: Talonbooks, Vancouver] Softcover Paperback. In this first-ever insider account of the American Embassy takeover in 1979, Massoumeh Ebtekar sets out to correct 20 years of misrepresentation by the Western media of what the aims of the Iranian students and the populist revolution they personified were, and have since remained.She also explains, in considerable detail, how one faction of the Shia clerical establishment came to see (with the eager complicity of the international media and its own pro-Western political agenda) these students as a vanguard of its own theocratic goals, rather than of the much broader cultural upheaval which had ousted the regime of Shah Mohammad-Reza Pahlevi, installed through a United States-sponsored coup in 1953.In February 2000, a month before U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albrights admission of active CIA involvement in the 1953 coup, Iranians flocked to the polls to elect the Islamic Republics sixth parliament: To date, 70% of the candidates elected have been characterized by the Western media as moderates, among them, like Ebtekar, the students who took over the American Embassy in 1979. These moderates, followers of President Mohammad Khatamihimself a Shia clergymanare now attempting to break the stranglehold the conservative religious faction have on Iranian politics since 1979, and to establish a civil society within an Islamic framework.This book is essential reading for ...
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ISBN10: 0889224439, ISBN13: 9780889224438, [publisher: Talonbooks, Vancouver, BC] Softcover First Edition 256 pp. Edgewear, corners rubbed. An inside account of the takeover of the U. S. Embassy, related by an active participant in the student movement that planned, oraganized, and carried it out. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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ISBN10: 0889224439, ISBN13: 9780889224438, [publisher: Talonbooks Ltd] Softcover 1st edition. 256 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]

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