Children of Paradise (83 page)

ending Iran-Iraq War,
88

in exile,
29
,
31
,
34

fatwa on expediency,
87
–88

fatwa on mass executions,
95
–96,
98
,
101

on governance,
29
–30

growing pragmatism of,
94

Islamic Revolution and,
6

as
marja al-taqlid
,
27
–28

Mousavi and,
446
–47

return from exile,
34
,
54

Shariati’s followers and,
30

Soroush and,
68

succession after,
94
,
98
,
101
,
110
–11

on United States,
28
–29

velayat-e faqih
and,
15

writings of,
29
–30

Khordad
(newspaper),
370
–72,
375

Khorramshahr, battle at,
45
–46,
82

Khoshvaght, Mohammad Hossein (Ershad official),
237
–38

Kiani, Jafar (stoning victim),
398

Kiyan
(journal)

Barzagan article in,
173
,
176

founded by Rokhsefat,
81
,
112
–13,
326

impact of,
112
–13,
153
,
244

journals linked to,
119
–21

Popper articles in,
119

under Soltani,
326

Soroush and,
81
,
176

Kiyan
Circle

analytic philosophy and,
118
–19,
143

challenges to,
121

dispute within,
153
–55

salon meetings,
112
–13

“velvet coup” and,
436

komiteh
s (militias),
37
,
41

Kuhn, Thomas,
119

Kurds,
35
,
44
,
201
–2

labor movement,
11

Lajevardi, Asadollah (prison warden),
90
–91,
93
–94,
249

Lakatos, Imre,
61

Laylaz, Saeed (analyst),
344

Lebanon, American hostages in,
87

leftists

executions of,
96
–97

forced confessions of,
91
–92

novelists and poets as,
52

students as,
83
–84,
133

in universities,
69

Lessons on Democracy for Everyone
(Bashiriyeh),
144

“Letters to the Free World” (Ganji), 322

Leviathan
(Hobbes),
137
–38

liberalism

attacks on,
78

Heidegger and,
78

Popper view of,
64

Soroush and,
64
,
79
,
80

literature

Iranian,
172

Russian,
52

See also
poets and poetry

Little Black Fish, The
(Behrangi),
3
–5,
7
,
23
,
46
,
108
,
166

local politics,
223
–24

Locke, John,
137

Mafi, Leyla (woman sentenced to execution),
382
–84

Mahdi, the (hidden imam),
346

Management and Planning Organization,
357

marja al-taqlid
(source of imitation),
27
–28,
102

martial law,
30
,
34

Marxism

Bashiriyeh and,
138
,
139
,
140
,
143
–44

reformists and,
142
,
143
–44

Shariati and,
14
,
18
–19,
64

Soroush and,
53
–54,
57
,
61
,
64
,
65
,
67
,
327

Marxism-Leninism,
53

Mashhad (city),
9
–10,
12
,
177
,
364
,
390
–93,
395

Masjed-e No (mosque in Shiraz),
23
,
26

massacre of political prisoners in 1988,
97
–98,
243
,
249
,
334
–35,
363
,
432
–33

Mazrui, Rajab Ali (head of journalists’ union),
302
,
304

mechanization,
7
–8

Meftahi, Ahmad (student killed in revolution),
25

Mehralizadeh, Mohsen (reformist politician),
331

Memarian, Omid (civil society activist),
268
–71,
278
,
280
–84,
288
–90,
294
,
295
,
297
–311,
313
,
324
–26,
388

See also
arrested bloggers

Merkel, Angela,
344

Mesbah-Yazdi, Mohammad-Taghi (ayatollah)

Ahmadinejad and,
346

political aims of,
347

violence and,
71
,
122
,
175

metaphysics,
59
,
62
,
76
–77,
113

MI6,
436
–38

middle class,
349
–50

military

in Iran-Iraq War,
88

of shah,
28

militias,
37
.
See also
Ansar-e Hezbollah; Basij;
komiteh
s

minorities, rights of,
36

“Miracle Room, The” (Rafizadeh),
255
,
282

Mirdamadi, Mohsen (reformist politician),
279

Mirebrahimi, Roozbeh (journalist),
183
–84,
241
–51,
253
–61,
265
–68,
271
–80,
286
–90,
292
–313,
335

See also
arrested bloggers

Mirsepassi, Ali (scholar),
13
–14

Mizan
(newspaper),
49

modernity

rejection of,
6

Shariati and,
14
–15

modernization, in rural areas,
217
–18

Mohammadi, Manouchehr and Akbar (students),
199
–202

Mohseni-Ejei, Gholam-Hossein (judge)

as intelligence minister,
334
,
388
–89

juvenile hangings and,
381

rejecting prison rape charges,
431

Moin, Mostafa (reformist presidential candidate),
330
–34,
387
–88

Mojabi, Javad (poet),
368

Mojahedin-e Khalq (guerrilla group),
18

allying with Iraq,
95

as anticlerical,
58

Bani-Sadr and,
42
–43

fighting hezbollahis,
42

forced confessions of,
91
–92

leadership escaping to France,
43
–44

mass executions of imprisoned,
96
–97

in prison,
92
–93

Soroush and,
68

split in,
53