Iran since the revolution / / Sepehr Zabih

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451629003321
• Autore: Zabih Sepehr
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-280-68459-3; 9786613661531; 1-136-83301-3; 0-203-83196-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Collana: Routledge library editions : Iran ; ; 35
• Disciplina: 955.054; 955/.054
• Soggetti: Political science; Electronic books.; Iran Politics and government 1979-1997
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1982.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Iran since the revolution; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Why and How Khomeini Succeeded; The American Connection; The Huyser Mission and the Iranian Army; The Collapse of the Armed Forces; Notes; 2. The Dynamics of Power; The Provisional Government; The Rift in the Shia Leadership; Laying the Foundations of the Republic; The Drafting of the Constitution; A Textual Analysis; Notes; 3. The Hostage Crisis; Memories of 1953 Revived; The Fateful Sunday; Flashback to 1976 and 1978; Organizational Set-up; Phases of the Crisis; Notes; 4. The Presidency and the Majlis; The Majlis Election; The IRP in the MajIisThe Opposition and the Majlis; The First Cabinet; Notes; 5. The Resurgence of Opposition; Shariatmadari's Dissent; The Clergy of Mashad; Other Dissident Clerics; The Kurdish Opposition; Relations with other Anti-Khomeini Forces; The Intellectuals and Khomeini's Cultural Revolution; Notes; 6. The Left and the Islamic Republic; Mojahedine Khalgh; The Mojahed in Exile; The Fedayeene Khalgh; The Tudeh Party; Notes; 7. The Demise of Banisadr; Political Organizations and the President; The Right to Designate; The War and the Institutional Crisis; The End of the Hostage Crisis; The Reconciliation CommissionBanisadr's Departure: the Great Escape; Notes; 8. Armed Struggle Against the Regime; The Decimation of the IRP Leadership; New Elections; Realignment of the Anti-Khomeini Forces; The Second Bomb Blast; Yet Another Election; Expatriate Iranians; Notes; 9. The Islamic Republic and the World; The USA and Khomeini in Power; Three Foreign-policy Considerations; The Changing Threat Perception; The Iraqi-Iranian Conflict; Iraq's Political Aims; The Divergent Positions on a Truce; Neither West nor East; Iran and the Three Aggressions; The New International Posture; Exporting the RevolutionNotes; 10. Aprognosis; War on Three Fronts; Khomeini's Islamic Justice; Problems and Prospects of the Guerrilla Organizations; The Military; Postscript; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the turn of the century Iran has experienced three major political upheavals in the struggle to democratize her political systems. The last revolution inaugurated an era of unprecedented turmoil and instead of fulfilling its democratic aim, paved the way for an even more despotic theocracy. To put the revolution in a proper perspective, some attempt is made to explain the reasons for Khomeini's success in acquiring first, the symbolic leadership of the anti-Shah revolution, and then, the monopolistic control of power in Iran. How and why the other claimants to power were shunted aside