Stolen Revolution

<h2>'Rare and riveting' <b>LYSE DOUCET</b><br>'A must-read . . . compulsively readable . . . unputdownable <b>JON LEE ANDERSON</b><br>'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' <b>LINDSEY HILSUM</b><br>'Extraordinarily powerful' <b>JACK STRAW</b> </h2><p><br><b>THE NEW STORY OF IRAN </b> <b>The moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: from the promise of the 1979 revolution, to its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people s undying spirit of resistance.</b><br><br>Fuelled by Iranians dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah s ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution s leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. In this landmark new book, award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran s recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope:<br><br> <b>Mehdi Karroubi</b>: a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle.<br><br> <b>Hila Sedighi</b>: a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams.<br><br> <b>Amir Moghadam</b>: an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth.<br><br> <b>Said Rahmani</b>: a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself.<br><br> <b>Rozhin Yousefzadeh</b> and <b>Kosar Eftekhari</b>: both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price.<br><br>Through vivid and original reporting, <i>Stolen Revolution</i> offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centring ordinary Iranians lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed and those brave individuals who fought back.<br><br><b>'Profoundly affecting</b> . . . <b>One of the most incisive works on Iranian society in a generation' </b>SCOTT ANDERSON, author of<i> KING OF KINGS</i><br><br><b><i>'</i>Excellent . . . tells the tragic but often inspiring story of Iran over the last fifty years . . . Essential' </b>JASON BURKE, author of <i>THE REVOLUTIONISTS</i></p>