IRAN (POLITY PRESS) (PB)

The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. It’s a theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate and an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own. In this book, the author explores how Iran’s repeated attempts to modernize in a series of revolutionary movements has come to define it – and set it on an authoritarian path in confrontation with the West and, often, its own people.