Iran Rising

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. This article draws on, and uses some material from, reports and comment pieces by the author on Iranian issues over the years. 2. Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr, Democracy in Iran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. See also Dilip Hiro, Iran Today. London: Politico's, 2006. 3. See Allister Sparks, Tomorrow is Another Country. Sandton, Johannesburg: Struik Book Distribution, 1994. 4. BBC On This Day, 1 February 1979: Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran. 5. Conversation with Shapur Bakhtiar, 1 February 1979. 6. Private conversation with former employee of the centre. 7. See Maryam Poya (pen name of Elaheh Rostami Povey), Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran. London: Zed Books, 1999. 8. Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Richard Tapper, Islam and Democracy in Iran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006, p. 47, which contains a full and enlightening account of Eshkevari's career, together with some of his writings and speeches. 9. Ibid., p. 61. 10. Ibid., p. 169. 11. Shirin Ebadi, with Azadeh Moaveni, Iran Awakening. London: Rider, 2006, p. 38. 12. The size of the Iranian diaspora, most of it post-revolutionary, is estimated at between 1 and 4 million. Abbas Milani gives a figure of 2 million, Lost Wisdom. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2004, p. 157. 13. Ebadi, Iran Awakening, p. 79. 14. Gheissari and Nasr, Democracy in Iran, p. 158. 15. Mir Hosseini and Tapper, Islam and Democracy in Iran, p. 151. 16. Ibid., p. 2. 17. Milani, Lost Wisdom, pp. 120–121. 18. Nasrin Alavi (ed. and trans.), We are Iran. London: Portobello Books, 2005, p. 1. 19. Ebadi, Iran Awakening, p. 95. 20. “Iran is now at the core and Egypt is at the periphery”, remarks by Professor Asher Susser. Director of the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies, at an on-the-record seminar on the New Middle East at Chatham House, 15 February 2007. 21. See Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. 22. Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, Beirut, 5 January 2007. 23. Ghassan Charbel, “Iran and the Obstructing Third”, Al-Hayat, 13 December 2007. 24. Fred Halliday, “The Matter with Iran”, Open Democracy, posted 1 March 2007. 25. Ali Ansari, Confronting Iran. London: Hurst, 2006, p. 90. 26. Kenneth Pollack, The Persian Puzzle. New York: Random House, 2006. 27. Frank Barnaby, “Iran's Nuclear Activities”, Oxford Research Group Report, 5 March 2006. 28. Ebadi, Iran Awakening, pp. 204–208. Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin WoollacottMartin Woollacott is a former Guardian foreign correspondent and foreign editor, who still contributes to that paper. He has covered numerous major news stories, principally in Asia and the Middle East, including the Vietnam War from 1971 to 1975, the Bangladesh War, the Indian Emergency and the 1991 Gulf War. He reported on the Iranian Revolution in 1978 and 1979 and returned to Iran several times in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the author of After Suez: Adrift in the American Century (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006).