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Authors: Laura Secor
“velvet coup” plot and,
436
,
442
Tarh-e No (publishing house),
170
,
254
tavob
s (repenters),
92
–93,
257
,
299
Tehran
under Ahmadinejad,
341
–42
city planning and,
213
,
215
–16,
220
–21
divisions in,
221
,
417
geography of,
215
–16
growth and crowding in,
218
–19,
221
improvements in,
221
–22
mass graves in,
97
–98
real estate development,
220
–21
reformists and,
231
Tehran City Council,
229
–33,
325
Thermidor (month of French revolutionary calendar),
126
–28,
130
,
132
,
134
,
139
torture
of Afshari,
206
–8,
210
–11
bastinado,
90
,
363
in Islamic Republic,
42
,
90
–91
of Memarian,
280
–82
of Mirebrahimi,
272
of Mohammadi brothers,
200
–201
of Rafizadeh,
264
,
266
under shah,
91
See also
flogging; prisons
Tudeh Party (communist),
11
,
68
,
84
underground press,
52
United Fundamentalist Front,
351
United Nations
funding of NGOs from,
270
Iran-Iraq War and,
86
,
88
prison observers from,
93
refugees and,
311
women’s rights and,
359
United States
attitudes toward,
131
Bazargan working with,
48
–49
“civil society” as tool of,
389
coup against Mossadegh,
11
hostage crisis at embassy of,
39
,
41
–42,
69
,
83
–84,
86
,
247
,
340
influence on shah,
28
Iran-Contra affair and,
87
,
447
Islamic nationalists and,
31
Khomeini view of,
28
–29
shah and,
39
shooting down airliner,
88
“velvet coup” plot and,
436
–38,
441
,
444
viewed as aggressor,
236
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
30
,
75
universities
attacks after election of 2009,
416
closing of,
69
insecure atmosphere in 1980s,
71
in Mousavi era,
139
purges,
44
,
69
,
71
under Rafsanjani,
132
–33,
187
–89,
246
reopening,
70
See also
Eighteenth of Tir campus crisis;
names of individual universities
University of Mashhad,
15
University of Tehran,
194
–98,
416
utopianism,
12
,
15
,
64
,
74
,
95
,
127
, 464
Vanstiphout, Wouter,
217
velayat-e faqih
(rule of Islamic jurisconsult)
in constitution,
40
,
85
Ganji on, 322,
323
as incompatible with republic, 322
as Islamized monarchy,
142
Khomeini’s theory of,
15
revision of role,
101
Revolutionary Council and,
34
“velvet coup” conspiracy
alleged collaborators in,
441
–42
confessions in,
439
–40,
445
Fazlinejad treatise on,
435
–39
trials and,
439
–43,
446
Voice of America,
351
“We Are the Writers!” (open letter),
174
,
176
–77
websites
based in Europe,
311
Iranian.com,
403
–4
Roozonline,
419
,
427
,
457
suppression of reformist,
410
“velvet coup” trial and,
267
,
410
,
446
Women’s News,
376
,
379
,
385
West and Western culture
Al-e Ahmad and,
7
–9
cinema and,
24
Heidegger and,
77
Iranian elites and,
5
Khatami rejecting,
151
–52
Soroush and,
70
–71
support for reformists in,
440
–41
Western thought
humanism in,
75
Khatami on,
151
–52
political theory and,
137
–38
Soroush and,
59
–63
“velvet coup” plot and,
439
–41
Westoxication
(Al-e Ahmad),
7
–9,
75
“What Is Enlightenment?” (Kant),
80
What Is Science? What Is Philosophy?
(Soroush),
67
Where Are You, Hasanak?
(Parnian),-166–67
White Revolution,
28
women
in Basij militia,
45
charged with sexual crimes,
380
–81
as political prisoners,
96
–97
rights of,
120
,
386
rural,
217
–18
suffrage for,
28
,
36
Women’s News (website),
376
,
379
women’s rights movement
Amini and,
359
,
386
demonstrations and,
399
–400
in election of 2009,
359
stoning and,
393
–95
Wright, Frank Lloyd,
213
Yas-e No
(newspaper),
241
Yazdi, Ebrahim (politician),
21
Zalzadeh, Ebrahim (editor),
177
Zan
(newspaper),
370
Zanan
(journal),
119
–20, 374,
381
Zavarei, Reza (judiciary official),
156
Zaydis (sect),
117
Zibakalam, Sadegh (student),
72