Introduction in Persian

The aim of this web site is to critic two popular and somewhat famous books on the Iranian turmoil of 1979 and highlight, using both authors very own words, written in the very same two books, their illogical arguments, false assumption and consequently their biased and incorrect conclusions.

Having proven a strong bias by these authors, I speculate based on what is said both advertently, and inadvertently in these books, the authors possible motives, and lessons future generations might care to learn.

We, the young generation of Iranian's, had to learn the hard way.

Articles included in this site are:

• Reply to "Persian Sphinx". Abridged Version
• Reply to "Shah & Ayatollah" Abridged Version

• Full detailed reply to the book "Persian Sphinx" by Abbas Milani
• Foot notes in reply to the book "Persian Sphinx" by Abbas Milani
• Full detailed reply to the book "Shah and Ayatollah" by Fereydoun Hoveyda
• Extracts of an interview between Mark Dankof & Fereydoun Hoveyda
• Additional comments on "Iranian Mythology" in Shah & Ayatollah
• Additional comments on "Islamic Revolution" in Shah & Ayatollah

Another point of view:

• Comments on Hoveyda's Biography. Question of intellectual responsibility.

Other Articles:

• Fereydoun's Wound. Analysis of Dr. F. Hoveyda & Dr. G. Mirfendereski's
• The Enigma. Analysis of Reza Shah Pahlavi's popularity.
• Analysis of the Complex, the "Oghdeh", that drives some Iranians.
• Why we keep getting the middle eastern world wrong.
• The Islamic Revolution: Causes and Reasons.
• Women haters in Tehran. The ideology behind the Islamic Republic.
• The Mullah's Legacy: Self-Loathing
• Dissidents or trade: Freedom vs Appeasement by Vaclav Havel
• Why terrorist won't win this time. And never will.
• Defeat Misogyny to Defeat Terror. Giving Iranian women a voice
• Atomic Opportunity: AhmadiNejad a divine gift
• Oil & Nukes: An American Solution
• Political Warfare: (or the lack of..)
• Talk with Tehran: Politics of USA-IRI Engagement
• Stability for the US: Misery & Destruction for the Iranian nation state

Technical Info: Sphinx site is designed to be fully compatible with the following browsers:

• IE 3 (except for rollovers- which fail without error- IE3 does not support image swaps)
• NN3.01 (fully)
• IE4 and up
• NN6

The site is a bit scrunched (but navigable) at 640 x 480. Looks very nice at 800 x 600; and is absolutely gorgeous at higher resolutions!