Children of Paradise (86 page)

recantation.
See
confessions

referenda,
37
–38,
40
,
252
,
318
,
320
,
323
,
324

reformists

Ahmadinejad and,
341
,
388
,
417
–18

blamed for Kahrizak detentions,
432

as CIA spy network,
279
,
436
–38

in election of 1997,
148
–49,
153
–58,
192
,
245
,
352

in election of 2000,
204
,
252
–53

in election of 2003,
270
–71

in election of 2004,
320
–21,
437

in election of 2005,
329
–32

in election of 2006,
348

in election of 2008,
351

in election of 2009,
410

genesis of,
50
,
145

inspired by Shariati,
49
–50

Islamic Left as genesis for,
140
–41,
144

journals of,
326
–27

Khatami and,
251
–52,
316
–17,
320
–21

mistakes of,
453
–54

Mousavi as,
86

networks of,
389
,
396
,
403
,
427

in parliament,
204
,
239
,
241
,
252
–53,
321

political parties of,
224
–25, 464–65

Rafsanjani and,
334

reversals of,
325
–26,
348
–49

seminar on strategy of,
317
–20

in Tehran City Council,
225
,
227
,
231

“velvet coup” plot and,
435
–40

viewed as enemies,
154

Repenters’ Message
(prison newspaper),
92

Repenters’ Society,
92

Republic, The
(Plato),
15
,
22
,
30
,
37

Republican Manifesto (Ganji), 322

Restless Nature of the Universe, The
(Soroush),
67

“Return to Self” (Shariati),
19

“Return to Which Self?” (Shariati),
19

Revelation of Secrets
(Khomeini),
28

revolution, theories of,
144

revolutionaries,
44
–45,
127
–28

Revolutionary Council,
34
,
37

Revolutionary Court

trying Amirentezam,
47
–48

“velvet coup” trial in,
439
–40

Revolutionary Guard Corps

attacking students,
195
,
198

in election of 2005,
332

in election of 2009,
408

Evin prison guards as,
91

factions within,
109

fighting Mojahedin,
43

Khomeini establishing,
35

politics and,
110

return from war,
89

Reyshahri, Mohammad (intelligence minister),
100
,
156

Rezaie, Mohsen (Revolutionary Guard Corps commander),
110
,
275
,
431

Right to Heresy, The
(Zweig),
449
–50

Rokhsefat, Mostafa (publisher),
51
–57,
67
,
73
–74,
80
–81,
108
,
112
–13,
153
–56

Roozonline (website),
419
,
427
,
457

Rorty, Richard,
437

Rostami, Hajar (mother of Agha-Soltan),
428

Rouhani, Hassan (security council member; president),
146
,
198
,
463
–64

Ruholamini, Mohsen (prisoner),
429
,
431

Rumi (poet),
62
,
116
,
135

Rushdie, Salman,
89

Saadat, Aida (activist),
411
–12,
419
,
427
,
430
,
455
–59

Saadi (poet),
57

Sadr, Shadi (human rights lawyer),
383
–85,
393
–94,
396
,
401
,
441

Sadra, Mulla (philosopher),
14
,
59
,
67
,
68

Sahaaleh, Atefah (teenager executed for crimes against chastity),
379
–81

Salam
(newspaper),
147
,
194

Sarkouhi, Faraj (editor),
177

SAVAK (shah’s security force),
17
–19,
51
,
141

Sazegara, Mohsen (reformist technocrat),
154

science

Heidegger’s view of,
75

history of,
67

philosophy of,
60
–61,
71
,
119

Second of Khordad

as election day of 1997,
158
,
192
,
245

as movement,
300
,
319

self-blamers, Sufis,
10

serial killings,
174
–80.
See also
chain murders

Setad
88
(organization),
352
–54,
406

sexual crimes

punishment for,
391
,
396
,
398

women charged with,
380
–81

shah

declaring martial law,
30

demonstrations against,
30
–32,
34

flight from Iran,
34

reforms proposed by,
28

See also
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza

Shahroudi, Mahoud Hashemi (chief justice)

bloggers and,
309
–10,
312
,
398

moratorium on stoning and,
391

Mortazavi and,
290
–91,
309

Solmaz Sharif and,
290
–92

Shajarian, Mohammad Reza (singer),
415
–16

“Share of Poets: Solitude, Love, and Death, The” (Rafizadeh),
183

sharia (Islamic law)

judiciary and,
381
,
393

penal code and,
90

on stoning,
398

Shariati, Ali (Islamist ideologue)

as activist for Mossadegh,
12

call for uprising,
17
–18

clergy and,
16

death and funeral preparations,
19
–21

denounced for anticlericalism,
30

education of,
9
–10

Hakimi as literary executor for,
53

at Hosseiniyeh Ershad,
16
–17,
136

influence of,
20
,
47
,
49
–50,
186

intellectual group inspired by,
45

Khamenei and,
16

lectures of,
16
–17,
136

on limited freedom,
15

Marxism and,
64

nationalism of,
14

prison or post-prison writings of,
18
–19

on religion subsuming politics,
114
–15