Abbas Milani takes a look at the conditions that surrounded Hoveyda’s Arrest but beyond that the Shah’s mishandling of the revolutionary crisis as opposed to the current IRI regime’s supreme leader’s handling of it’s own.
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Recommended Readings:
Hoveyda’s Tragic Fate By Cyrus Kadivar – 23 DECEMBER 1999/LONDON/UK
An Iranian Optimist: Up Close and Personal an inside look into Abbas Milani’s life and academic career (Stanford Magazine)
Recommended Books:
The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution by Abbas Milani (amazon.com)
Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 by Abbas Milani (amazon.com)
Related Blogs:
ENDURING GUILT: French Journalist who interviewed Hoveyda (27/05/2010)
HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Hadi Ghaffari executioner of Amir Abbas Hoveyda (1979)
HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Amir Abbas Entezam Chained to Hospital Bed (1990’s)