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re-read.

Iran really comes off poorly in this book. Would be interested to read a more neutral book though I doubt Iran would ever be portrayed positively. I am surprised the US never undertook more extreme military force against Iran in response to the hostage taking as it seems the US of today would have happily struck Iran’s oil facilities at least.

Clearly the book has some US bias but the students during the revolution that did the hostage taking were genuinely vegetables. They were without plan, ill-informed, naive, completely ignorant of political realities and the long term ramifications of their actions.

I can see why Mark Bowden’s books are described as page-turners