Iran - Royalty, Religion and Revolution (An Old and Rare Book)

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"The stock in trade of British political discourse-moderate, democratic, conservative, reactionary needs adjustment before it is exported to Iran" wrote a Guardian Weekly correspondent on 12 November 1978. But many Westerners remained oblivious of this need and remained blind to the true motive of developments in Iran. James A. Bill acknowledged this in his article "Iran and the crisis of 1978" (Foreign Affairs, Winter 1978-79) when he regretfully admitted that:

"America knows astonishingly little about Iran. Other more visible issues have deflected much of our attention elsewhere. Turkey and NATO, Saudi Arabia and its stupendous oil wealth, and the always- explosive Arab Israeli issue are three cases in point. The hundreds. of thousands of Americans who have lived in Iran since World War II have seldom penetrated the glittering surface consisting primarily of north Tehran and its charming, well-to-do, English speaking inhabitants, Occasional forays to Isfahan and the Shah 'Abbas Hotel, Persepolis and the gardens of Shiraz, and the resorts along the Caspian Sea have not served to sharpen our appreciation of the social, political, economic, and religious realities of the country. The American mass media's coverage of Iran has over the years been consistently sparse, superficial, and distorted. Major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have been especially weak in their reporting on Iran, misrepresenting the nature and depth of the opposition to the Shah."

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