Stolen Revolution

<h2><b>'Rare and riveting' LYSE DOUCET</b><Br><b>'Blistering . . . a genuinely remarkable achievement' <i>THE TIMES</i></b><Br><b>'Compulsively readable . . . unputdownable JON LEE ANDERSON</b><Br><b>'Dramatic, personal and often heartbreaking' <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><Br><b>'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM</b><Br><b>'One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years' <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b></h2><p><Br><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></p><p>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:</p><p> <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.</p><p> <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.</p><p> <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.</p><p> <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.</p><p> <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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>'The definitive inside story of how the ideals behind Iran's revolution were subverted and crushed - and of the brave Iranians who still keep those dreams alive' </b>CATHERINE BELTON, author of <i>PUTIN'S PEOPLE</i></p><p><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></p><p><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><p><b>'Extraordinarily powerful' </b>JACK STRAW</p>