Revolutionary Iran

FULLY UPDATED THIRD EDITION, NOW WITH NEW POSTSCRIPT BY ALI ANSARI

'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher Education

For some 40 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespreadcondemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-yearwar. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehowjust disappear as a problem. But with Iran's continuing commitment to anuclear programme and its reputation as a trouble-maker in Syria,Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere, this is unlikely any time soon. Anunending stream of assertions about the revolution's finally runningdown continue to be defied by events, and Iran's institutions are stillformidable.

This is the definitive history of this subject, from one of the world's principal experts.

Reviews

In this lucid, nicely written and well-paced work, Michael Axworthy provides a compelling overview of contemporary Iran and its relations with the outside world ... [Axworthy's] perspective is far more persuasive, and interesting, than the neocon line that has dominated the Iran debate