Accused #13 in the Shah's Iran
A Memoir of Injustice| By: | Kian Parsi; Phillip Villarreal |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9781476666358 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781476626505 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2016 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In 1953, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi--the Shah of Iran--rose to absolute power in a CIA-assisted coup d'etat dubbed Operation Ajax. As Iranian citizens began to learn of their government's involvement in the coup, ordinary people--scholars, lawyers, students, military personnel--began to disappear. Drawing on the political and geographic history of Iran before the 1979 Revolution, this memoir of a political prisoner of the Shah's regime recounts a soldier's brutal arrest, imprisonment, interrogation and torture by state security over 50 days in 1969 and 1970.