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Khomeini’s anti-American policies and even defended some of the atrocities committed by the regime in the name of revolutionary justice. In 1983, the Islamic government announced that the Tudeh was secretly trying to overthrow it. Khomeini ordered the arrest of Tudeh leaders, including some in the military. Most of them were executed between 1983 and 1987; many others spent over a decade in prison. Currently, the Tudeh has almost no activities inside Iran and survives in name only, with few supporters.

Further Reading, Listening, and Watching

NONFICTION BOOKS

Tortured Confessions by Ervand Abrahamian (University of California Press, 1999)

The Pivot of the Universe by Abbas Amanat (I. B. Tauris, 2008)

The Quest for Democracy in Iran by Fakhreddin Azimi (Harvard University Press, 2010)

Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran, edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne (Syracuse University Press, 2004)

Transit Tehran, edited by Malu Halasa and Maziar Bahari (Garnet, 2008)

State and Society in Iran by Homa Katouzian (I. B. Tauris, 2006)

The Persian Sphinx by Abbas Milani (Mage, 2009)

The Mantle of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh (Oneworld, 2008)

Treacherous Alliance by Trita Parsi (Yale University Press, 2008)

The Iran Primer, edited by Robin Wright (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2010)

FICTION AND POETRY BOOKS

The poetry of Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks (HarperOne, different years)

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Fitzgerald (Oxford University Press, 2009)

The poetry of Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin, different years)

Strange Times, My Dear, edited by Nahid Mozaffari and Ahmad Karimi Hakkak (Arcade Publishing, 2005)

My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, translated by Dick Davis (Modern Library, 2006)

You will also enjoy listening to the classic Persian music of Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Shahram Nazeri, and Mohammad Reza Shajarian and the modern Iranian music of Hitchkas, Kiosk, and Mohsen Namjoo.

Those interested in Iran should also watch the following films:

FICTION FILMS

Rakhshan Bani Etemad: Nargess and Under the Skin of the City

Asghar Farhadi: Fireworks Wednesday and About Elly

Bahman Ghobadi: A Time for Drunken Horses

Manijeh Hekmat: Women’s Prison

Abbas Kiarostami: The Traveler, Close-Up, and Ten

Majid Majidi: Baran and The Color of Paradise

Dariush Mehrjui: The Cow and The Tenants

Jafar Panahi: The Circle and Offside

Kambuzia Partovi: Border Café

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Mahnaz Afzali: The Red Card

Maziar Bahari: And Along Came a Spider and An Iranian Odyssey

Rakshan Bani Etemad: Our Times

Forough Farrokhzad: The House Is Black

Albert Lamorisse: The Lovers’ Wind

Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Divorce, Iranian Style

Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Salaam Cinema

Ebrahim Mokhtari: The Tenancy and Zinat

Mehrdad Oskouei: Nose, Iranian Style and The Other Side of Burka

Norma Percy: Iran and the West

Hamid Rahmanian: The Glass House

Kamran Shirdel: The Night It Rained

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MAZIAR BAHARI is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and human-rights activist. A correspondent for Newsweek from 1998 to 2010, he was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to Canada in 1988 to pursue his studies in film and political science. Bahari’s documentaries have been broadcast on stations around the world, including HBO, BBC, and the Discovery Channel. In 2009, he was named a finalist for Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, often described as Spain’s Nobel Peace Prize; he was nominated by Desmond Tutu. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

AIMEE MOLLOY is the co-author of three previous books: Jantsen’s Gift with Pam Cope; This Moment on Earth with Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry; and For God and Country with James Yee. She also served as an editor of Laurie Strongin’s Saving Henry. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.