Comments on: Iran http://www.desiringmachine.org/blog/2009/06/16/iran/ Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:02:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: eleana http://www.desiringmachine.org/blog/2009/06/16/iran/comment-page-1/#comment-106661 eleana Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:05:18 +0000 http://www.desiringmachine.org/blog/?p=275#comment-106661 This past winter, I read two interesting books about Iran: ALL THE SHAH'S MEN by (I believe the author is) Steve Kinzer and THE AYATOLLAH BEGS TO DIFFER by Hooman Majd. The first is history (especially about US and UK oil-relations and the events of 1953). The second is a 2008 tour of Iranian culture by the author who was born in Iran, lived there until the 1970's when his family had to leave, grown up in the US and then returned. Both accounts are very readable and I would recommend them to anyone interested in getting some background information about Iran--a part of the world that has been pretty much "blacked out" information-wise since the Shah was expelled, in my opinion. This past winter, I read two interesting books about Iran:
ALL THE SHAH’S MEN by (I believe the author is) Steve Kinzer and THE AYATOLLAH BEGS TO DIFFER by Hooman Majd.

The first is history (especially about US and UK oil-relations and the events of 1953). The second is a 2008 tour of Iranian culture by the author who was born in Iran, lived there until the 1970’s when his family had to leave, grown up in the US and then returned.

Both accounts are very readable and I would recommend them to anyone interested in getting some background information about Iran–a part of the world that has been pretty much “blacked out” information-wise since the Shah was expelled, in my opinion.

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