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Bozorghmehr Sharafedin

Stolen Revolution

€23,95

THE NEW STORY OF IRAN

 The moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: from the promise of the 1979 revolution to its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people s undying spirit of resistance.

Fuelled by Iranians dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah s ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution s leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. In this landmark new book, award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran s recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope:

Mehdi Karroubi: a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle.

Hila Sedighi: a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams.

Amir Moghadam: an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth.

Said Rahmani: a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself.

Rozhin Yousefzadeh and Kosar Eftekhari: both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests.

Each paid an enormous price.

Through vivid and original reporting, Stolen Revolution offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centring ordinary Iranians lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed and those brave individuals who fought back.

Format: Oversize Paperback
Published: 2026
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 483
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0241744040
ISBN 13: 9780241744048

 

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Stolen Revolution

€23,95