Takeover in Tehran the Inside Story of the 1970 U.S. Embassy Capture
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
She also outlines, in considerable detail, how one faction of the Shi'a clerical establishment came to see (with the eager complicity of the international media and its own pro-Western political agenda) these students as a vanguard of its own theocratic goals, rather than of the much broader cultural upheaval which had ousted the the regime of Shah Mohammad-Reza Pahlevi, installed through a US-sponsored coup in 1953.
In February, 2000, a month before US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's admission of active CIA involvement in the 1953 coup, Iranians flocked to the polls to elect the Islamic Republic's sixth parliament: 70% of the candidates elected are self-proclaimed "reformers". Among them are several of the former students who seized and occupied the American Embassy in November, 1979. These reformers, followers of President Mohammad Khatami -- himself a Shi'a clergyman -- are now attempting to pry open the vise-grip of the conservative religious faction on Iranian politics since 1979, and to establish a civil society within an Islamic framework.
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