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Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-

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• Iran -- Politics and government

• Understanding Iran (c2009), by Jerrold D. Green, Frederic M. Wehrey, and Charles Wolf (with commentary at rand.org)
• Undermining Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians (2009), by Freedom House (U.S.), RFE/RL, and Radio Free Asia (PDF at freedomhouse.org)
• Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader (Washington et al.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2008), by Karim Sadjadpour (PDF with commentary at carnegieendowment.org)
• Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2004), ed. by Henry D. Sokolski and Patrick Clawson (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist, by Ruhollah Khomeini, trans. by Hamid Algar (multiple formats at al-islam.org)

• The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953 (redacted version of a classified 1954 report, with additional material; this edition published 2000), by Donald Newton Wilber, ed. by Malcolm Byrne (PDF files at gwu.edu)
• On the Alliance of the October League (M-L) with the Shah of Iran (1975), by Iranian Students Association of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hostage to Khomeini, by Robert Dreyfuss and Thierry LeMarc (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)

• The Rise (English Defense Publication); and Leaflets in English (Wilmette, IL: Organization of Iranian Moslem Students, 1979), by Sāzmān-i Dānishjūyān-i Musalmān-i Īrānī
  • part 1 (issues 1 and 2): multiple formats at archive.org
  • part 2 (issues 3-7): multiple formats at archive.org
  • part 3 (leaflets): multiple formats at archive.org

• Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Ervand Abrahamian (HTML at UC Press)
• Light of the Path: Selected Messages of "Imam Khomeini" (Tehran: Jihad-e-Sazandegi (Jihad for Construction), External Liaison Section, 1982), by Ruhollah Khomeini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Highlights of Imam Khomeini's Speeches, Nov. 5, 80-Apr. 28, 81 (Albany, CA: Muslim Student Association, Persian Speaking Group, 1981), by Ruhollah Khomeini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Which Direction is Our Society Going? (translated from PEYKAR nos. 54 and 55; Berkeley: Union of Iranian Students in the U.S., 1980) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Selected Messages and Speeches of Imam Khomeini (Tehran: Ministry of National Guidance, 1980), by Ruhollah Khomeini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader (Washington et al.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2008), by Karim Sadjadpour (PDF with commentary at carnegieendowment.org)
• Democracy Betrayed: A Response to the U. S. State Department Report on the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance, by National Council of Resistance of Iran (HTML and PDF at iran-e-azad.org)
• Hostage to Khomeini, by Robert Dreyfuss and Thierry LeMarc (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)

• Khomeini's Incorporation of the Iranian Military (McNair paper #48; Washington: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1996), by Mark J. Roberts
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Strangling of Persia: A Story of the European Diplomacy and Oriental Intrigue That Resulted in the Denationalization of Twelve Million Mohammedans (New York: The Century Co., 1912), by W. Morgan Shuster (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2016), by Patrick Wing
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust