Teaching Fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Ervand Abrahamian traces the country’s traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis, and the birth of the Islamic Republic. The book’s greatest achievement is that it helps the reader to straightforwardly navigate historical events since late nineteenth century that shape today’s Iran. More than a century has passed since one of the first democratically elected National Assemblies in the Middle East was established in Iran as a result of its Constitutional Revolution in 1906, presenting an occasion to revisit contemporary history of the country.
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