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008			080807s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2008035220
020			_a9781594032400 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a1594032408 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aDS318.825 _b.T34 2009
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100	1		_aTaheri, Amir.
245	1	4	_aThe Persian night : _bIran under the Khomeinist revolution / _cAmir Taheri.
260			_aNew York : _bEncounter Books, _cc2009.
300			_aix, 413 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe world's number one power -- The haven of jihad -- The focus of the universe -- The triple oxymoron -- Democracy as enemy -- Iran and anti-Iran -- Unwelcome faith -- A strange beast -- The feeble ones -- The prophet and women -- The eternal conspirator -- Esther and the king -- The great satan -- Five days in August -- A universal ideology -- Sunrise power against sunset power -- Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein -- West stricken, Arab stricken -- State or revolution -- Six centers of power -- Six rival centers of power -- Power points in a no-man's land -- The nail of the Imam -- We can! -- A case of national schizophrenia -- Pre-emptive war or pre-emptive surrender? -- Conditions for regime change -- Repression and resistance -- The ethnic time bomb -- A heaving volcano.
651		0	_aIran _xPolitics and government _y1979-1997.
651		0	_aIran _xPolitics and government _y1997-
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008035220.html
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