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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 628 times as iran)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,239 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 605 times as iran)
avg rating 4.41 — 214,366 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 581 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 239,042 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,655 ratings — published 1937
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as iran)
avg rating 4.47 — 255,497 ratings — published 2024
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 140,403 ratings — published 2019
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,991 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 248 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,872 ratings — published 2001
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 210,747 ratings — published 2024
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 216 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,288 ratings — published 2003
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,805 ratings — published 1973
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 181 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,950 ratings — published 2016
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,889 ratings — published 1982
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,245 ratings — published 2017
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,117 ratings — published 2007
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,745 ratings — published 1973
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as iran)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,833 ratings — published 2006
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,615 ratings — published 2007
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,881 ratings — published 2003
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 145 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,862 ratings — published 2018
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as iran)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,843 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,440 ratings — published 2005
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as iran)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,013 ratings — published 2004
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,196 ratings — published 2008
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as iran)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,360 ratings — published 2013
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,218 ratings — published 2008
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 925 ratings — published 2017
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as iran)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,722 ratings — published 1010
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as iran)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,748 ratings — published 2008
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,763 ratings — published 2005
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,422 ratings — published 2014
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as iran)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,102 ratings — published 2008
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,492 ratings — published 1120
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as iran)
avg rating 4.09 — 720 ratings — published 1985
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as iran)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,053 ratings — published 2008
Suvashun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,252 ratings — published 1969
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,956 ratings — published 2007
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,320 ratings — published 1987
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,560 ratings — published 2020
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as iran)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,918 ratings — published 2013
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,407 ratings — published 2018
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as iran)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,914 ratings — published 2025
The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as iran)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,808 ratings — published 2016
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as iran)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,963 ratings — published 2009
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as iran)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,944 ratings — published 1992
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,029 ratings — published 2016
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,127 ratings — published 2012
Woman, Life, Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,384 ratings — published 2023
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 45,873 ratings — published 2020
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,248 ratings — published 2006
“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to visit his Dutch girlfriend.”
― Lost Identity
― Lost Identity
“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 in support of the PLO. Under the Nixon doctrine, Israel and Iran were to be 'the guardians of the Gulf,' and after the fall of the Shah, Israel's perceived role was enhanced. Meanwhile, Israel has provided subsidiary services elsewhere, including Latin America, where direct US support for the most murderous regimes has been impeded by Congress. While there has been internal debate and some fluctuation in US policy, much exaggerated in discussion here, it has been generally true that US support for Israel's militarization and expansion reflected the estimate of its power in the region.
The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation.”
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The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation.”
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