Defying the Iranian Revolution
Subtitle: From a Minister to the Shah to a Leader of Resistance
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Textbook Binding
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780275971878
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Revolutions & coups; History - General History; History: World; Iran; Government - Comparative; Middle East - Iran; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Ganji, Manouchehr; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Revolutionary; 1979-1997; Exiles; History; Political activity; Politics and government; Revolution, 1979
First sentence: Barry Rubin, a fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic Studies, wrote in 1980 that, in 1977, the Shah invited the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit Iranian prisons on a regular basis and asked Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists to suggest ways of improving the human rights situation in Iran.