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Iran Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 617 times as iran)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,155 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 590 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 210,136 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 570 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 235,280 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,788 ratings — published 1937
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as iran)
avg rating 4.48 — 221,355 ratings — published 2024
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 133,628 ratings — published 2019
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,532 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 244 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 79,982 ratings — published 2001
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 191,998 ratings — published 2024
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 211 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,405 ratings — published 2003
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as iran)
avg rating 3.71 — 9,899 ratings — published 1973
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 175 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,820 ratings — published 2016
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,677 ratings — published 1982
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,928 ratings — published 2007
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,155 ratings — published 2017
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as iran)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,801 ratings — published 2006
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,591 ratings — published 1973
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,675 ratings — published 2003
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,556 ratings — published 2007
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,499 ratings — published 2018
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as iran)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,642 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,052 ratings — published 2005
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,595 ratings — published 2004
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as iran)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,139 ratings — published 2008
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,207 ratings — published 2008
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 872 ratings — published 2017
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as iran)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,309 ratings — published 2013
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iran)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,703 ratings — published 2008
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,756 ratings — published 2005
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as iran)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,766 ratings — published 1010
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,361 ratings — published 2014
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as iran)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,056 ratings — published 2008
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,338 ratings — published 1120
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as iran)
avg rating 4.10 — 703 ratings — published 1985
Suvashun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,112 ratings — published 1969
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as iran)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,045 ratings — published 2008
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,789 ratings — published 2007
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,278 ratings — published 2020
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as iran)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,881 ratings — published 2013
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as iran)
avg rating 4.19 — 39,754 ratings — published 1987
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,316 ratings — published 2018
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as iran)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,900 ratings — published 2025
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as iran)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,953 ratings — published 2009
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,005 ratings — published 2016
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,936 ratings — published 1992
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 44,724 ratings — published 2020
Woman, Life, Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as iran)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,057 ratings — published 2023
The Conference of the Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,373 ratings — published 1177
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,194 ratings — published 2006
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,103 ratings — published 2012
“1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger’s undisclosed reason for the ‘tilt’ was the supposed but never materialised ‘brokerage’ offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was ‘a basket case’ before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere.
2. Chile.... Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIA’s plan to kidnap and murder General René Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces ... who refused to countenance military intervention in politics. In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms ... who warned him that a coup in such a stable democracy would be hard to procure. The murder of Schneider nonetheless went ahead, at Kissinger’s urging and with American financing, just between Allende’s election and his confirmation.... This was one of the relatively few times that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him ‘Doctor’ is greater than that of most PhDs) involved himself in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter of anonymous thousands. His jocular remark on this occasion—‘I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible’—suggests he may have been having the best of times....
3. Cyprus.... Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists for the murder of President Makarios, and sanctioned the coup which tried to extend the rule of the Athens junta (a favoured client of his) to the island. When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissinger’s, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support an even bloodier intervention by Turkey. Thomas Boyatt ... went to Kissinger in advance of the anti-Makarios putsch and warned him that it could lead to a civil war. ‘Spare me the civics lecture,’ replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions.
4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with ‘deniable’ assistance also provided by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that the Kurds were not to be allowed to win, but were to be employed for their nuisance value alone. They were not to be told that this was the case, but soon found out when the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American aid to Kurdistan was cut off. Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger ... for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees who were thus abruptly created.... The apercu of the day was: ‘foreign policy should not he confused with missionary work.’ Saddam Hussein heartily concurred.
5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there are good judges who put this estimate on the low side. Kissinger was furious when news of his own collusion was leaked, because as well as breaking international law the Indonesians were also violating an agreement with the United States.... Monroe Leigh ... pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: ‘The Israelis when they go into Lebanon—when was the last time we protested that?’ A good question, even if it did not and does not lie especially well in his mouth.
It goes on and on and on until one cannot eat enough to vomit enough.”
―
2. Chile.... Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIA’s plan to kidnap and murder General René Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces ... who refused to countenance military intervention in politics. In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms ... who warned him that a coup in such a stable democracy would be hard to procure. The murder of Schneider nonetheless went ahead, at Kissinger’s urging and with American financing, just between Allende’s election and his confirmation.... This was one of the relatively few times that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him ‘Doctor’ is greater than that of most PhDs) involved himself in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter of anonymous thousands. His jocular remark on this occasion—‘I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible’—suggests he may have been having the best of times....
3. Cyprus.... Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists for the murder of President Makarios, and sanctioned the coup which tried to extend the rule of the Athens junta (a favoured client of his) to the island. When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissinger’s, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support an even bloodier intervention by Turkey. Thomas Boyatt ... went to Kissinger in advance of the anti-Makarios putsch and warned him that it could lead to a civil war. ‘Spare me the civics lecture,’ replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions.
4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with ‘deniable’ assistance also provided by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that the Kurds were not to be allowed to win, but were to be employed for their nuisance value alone. They were not to be told that this was the case, but soon found out when the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American aid to Kurdistan was cut off. Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger ... for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees who were thus abruptly created.... The apercu of the day was: ‘foreign policy should not he confused with missionary work.’ Saddam Hussein heartily concurred.
5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there are good judges who put this estimate on the low side. Kissinger was furious when news of his own collusion was leaked, because as well as breaking international law the Indonesians were also violating an agreement with the United States.... Monroe Leigh ... pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: ‘The Israelis when they go into Lebanon—when was the last time we protested that?’ A good question, even if it did not and does not lie especially well in his mouth.
It goes on and on and on until one cannot eat enough to vomit enough.”
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“The men were smashing windows and aiming their weapons through them. The driver had opened the door and was shouting for the women and children to get out and run and hide. But Ilina realized in some vague way that he never managed to actually say the word "hide." He really said, "Women and children, get out, get out, get out! Run and..." The clerk's wife thought it was odd that he had stopped in the middle of a sentence, and even stranger that she herself knew the word, heard the word "hide" in her head when the driver stopped talking.”
― The Caucasian Menace
― The Caucasian Menace












