by Amir Taheri
Sayyed-nezhad, Muhammad-Ali
Schedina, Abdul-Aziz
Schmidt, Helmut
Schwarzkopf, norman
Scientific Center of Qom
secularism European of Khomeinism of Pahlavis paradox of Turkish
seminaries closing of in Qom
Semiramis
Senegal
September 11 attacks and American outlook as Jewish conspiracy and Mossadeq affair
Shabib, Talib
Shafa, Shojaeddin
Shahab missiles
Shahnameh (“Book of Kings”)
Shahrbanu (Princess)
Shahroudi, Mahmoud Hashemi
Shahsavari, Rajab-Ali
Shalah, Ramadan al-
Shams, Abd al- (Abu-Hureirah)
Shanghai Group
Shariah codification of and pre-Islamic custom and Rafsanjani and Western law
Shariati, Ali on imamate on voting
Shariatmadari, Muhammad Kazem
Shayegan, Ali
Sherkat, Shahla
Shiism: calendar difference from Sunnism on “Evil Five,” on “Five Immaculate Ones,” founder of and Hidden Imam (Mahdi) on imamate intercession in and Iranian leadership ambitions and Jaafar and “Jewish conspiracy,” on justice Koran in lion emblem and sayyed on “source of imitation,”
Shiites in Afghanistan appearance of beard tradition common hatreds as minority mosque style on Muhammad’s successors persecution of Sunni view of and taqiyyah variety of
Shi Jiu-yong
Shirazi, Muhsin
Shirazi, nasser Makarem
Shoja’ee, Zohreh
Sibuyeh
Sicily
Simpson, John
Siniora, Fouad
Sirjani, Saidi
Sistani, Ali-Muhammad Husseini house arrest popularity
Sisters of Zaynab
slavery
smoking
Society of Combatant Clergy
Society of Combative Clergymen
Society of Mahdaviat
Society of the Pledge (Jamiyat e Hojatieh)
Socrates on democracy Khomeini on
Soghdi, Abu-Hofs
Soltanpour, Saeed
Somalia
Soraya (Queen)
Sorush, Abdul-Karim exile on secularization university purges
South Africa
South Korea
Soviet Union and Afghanistan annexation efforts anti-shah propaganda collapse of and Cuba and détente Islamic encirclement of and Israel Khomeini challenge to military equipment on Mossadeq Muslims in NKVD and nuclear “insurance,” and Persian Gulf aims pro-American sentiment in shah’s resistance to and SAVAK treaties with Tehran and Tudeh Party and Turkmen Yeltsin’s “regime change” in
Sowt al-Arab (Voice of the Arabs)
Spain: conquest of rial in
sports
Stalin, Josef and Turkmen revolt
Straw, Jack
Sudan and Israel jihadi conference in “Mahdi” in
Sufis
suicide
Suleymani, Qassem
Sullivan, William
Sunnis avoidance of Iran Baluchi Hezballah attacks on as Islamic Republic allies and Koran Kurdish mosque style on Muhammad’s successors restrictions on Salafis schools of (mazhab) on Shiism Taleshis Turkmen
superstition
Supreme Council for national Security
Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution
Supreme Guide and armed forces and Assembly of Experts and business and faction and Hezballah and Majlis powers of and president secret budget of and state institutions see also wali e faqih
Supreme Judicial Council
Suratgar, Lotfali
Suzani Samarkandi
Switzerland
Syndicate of Iranian Employers
Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran United Bus Company
Syria as ally Arabization of and Cold War defensive treaty with Iranian dominance over and Israel
Tabari, Ehsan
tabarra (exoneration)
Tabassi, Abbas Va’ez
Tabatabai, Ali-Akbar
Tabatabai, Hussein
Tabatabai, Muhammad Hussein
Tabatabai-Qomi, Hassan
Tabatabai-Qomi, Mahmoud
Tahmasp
Tahrir al-Wassilah (“Release of the Means”)
Tajikistan
Taleqani, Mahmoud
Talhah
Taliban and Clinton safe haven for uncompromising
taqiyyah by Khomeini
Taqi-Zadeh, Hassan
Taraji, Mansur
Taskhiri, Muhammad-Ali
Tatars
Tehran Book Fair
Tehran Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Tehrani, Ali
Tehran University Anti-Americanism studies at government announcements at protest at smoking question Sunnis at and Zanjani chancellor protest
temporary wives as business Khomeini on
Ten Days of Dawn conference
terrorism: as asymmetric war Beirut Marine barracks domestic financing of Khobar towers Lockerbie (Pan Am 103) as official policy officials indicted for safe havens for State Department list Sunni-Shiite cooperation in Tehran conference World Trade Center (1993) see also September 11 attack
Thar Allah (Blood of Allah)
Toben, Frederick
Tonkaboni, Fereidun
Total SA
trade unions. See labor unions
Treaty of Paris
Truman, Harry S.
Tudeh (Masses) Party on American “imperialism,” and Israel as Khomeini ally on Koran on Mossadeq repression of and sayyeds and strikes
Turabi, Hassan al-
Turkey Arab hostility toward and Armenia and Cold War diplomacy Hezballah in and Kurds secularism in and Turkic nations women in
Turkmen massacre of
Turkmenistan
Turks see also Ottomans
Uighur
Umayyid dynasty
Umma and Imamate (Shariati)
ummah anti-individualist anti-nationalist components of and Israel Khomeinist leadership claims
Union of Contractual Workers
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom. See Great Britain
United nations Ahmadinejad at Bush address at Food and Agricultural Organization on Iranian nuclear program and IRGC and Lebanon
United States: and Afghan war aid from alliance debate and Atlantic Alliance and Bay of Pigs Beirut attack on “black republic” scheme CIA Civil War and “clash of civilizations,” and Cold War “Death to America decline predicted defense budget diplomacy embassy takeover as fickle as fragile “free gifts” from “friendship” with as “Great Satan,” Gulf War Iranians in and Iran-Iraq war and Iraq war and Israel Khobar attack and “last helicopter,” military aid and Mogadishu Monroe Doctrine and Mossadeq and Mujahedin Khalq nuclear weapons as “other,” in Persian Gulf policy changes politics of compromise popularity of propaganda against running away and Saudi Arabia as scapegoat September 11 attacks Sixth Fleet State Department terrorist list student favor for and Suez fiasco and Syria USS Cole attack and Vietnam War World Trade Center attack (1993)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal Legion of the Servants of Mankind
universities Ahmadinejad at anti-Americanism studies in closing of free education in gender apartheid in opposition movements in purge of women in see also Tehran University
Uribe, Alvaro
Uruguay
USA Today
USS Cole
Uzbekistan
Vahidi, Ahmad
Vahidi, Allameh
Vandals
Vatican
Vatvat, Rashid
Velayati, Ali-Akbar
Venezuela
VEVAK (Islamic Republic Intelligence and Security Organization)
Victorious Companions of the Party of God
Vietcong
Vietnam War
Wahhab
is
walayat e faqih
Walayat Faqih (Khomeini)
wali e faqih see also Supreme Guide
Wall Street Journal
Wasil ibn ‘Ata
Well-Guided Caliphs Shiite view of
West Azerbaijan
Wilber, Donald
women and adultery against women’s rights Arabian idols in arts child brides and classroom apartheid and divorce (“repudiation”) education employment as feeble in hadith and hijab infanticide of in Koran and Muhammad in parliament and polygamy in pre-Islamic society prostitution protest by and rape and shah’s reforms as teachers as “temporary wives,” in textbooks as war booty
Workers’ House
Workers’ Organizations and Activists Coordinating Council (WOACC)
World Bank
World Economic Forum
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War I,
World War II,
“World Without America” conference
“World Without Zionism” conference
Yao Wen-yuan
Yassaqi, Ali-Akbar
Yassin, Ahmad
Yazdegerd III,
Yazid (Caliph)
Yazdi, Ibrahim
Yazidis
Yeganeh, Muhammad
Yelda, Ramin
Yeltsin, Boris
Yemen Shiite radicals in
Young, Andrew
Yugoslavia
Zahedi, Fazlallah
Zahmatkeshan party
Zanjani, Abbasali Amid
Zan Ruz (“Today’s Woman”)
Zarrinkub, Abdul-Hussein
Zawahiri, Ayman al-
Zaydan, Georgie
Zaydis
Zaynab bint Jahsh
Zenobia (Queen)
Zhou Enlai
Zimbabwe
Zoroastrians books of contempt for converts in India Kurdish as People of the Book resistance to Arabs secretive temples of and women
Zubayr
Zulfiqari, Hussein
a
Bulahab was a wealthy Arab cursed by the Prophet for rejecting Islam. Yathrib was the ancient name for Medina, Muhammad’s adopted hometown.
b
“The Chosen,” one of Prophet Muhammad’s titles.
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Taheri, Amir.
The Persian night : Iran under the Khomeinist revolution / Amir Taheri. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-594-03552-4
DS318.825.T34 2008
955.05’4—dc22
2008035220
Table of Contents
Praise
Title Page
Preface
Chapter 1 - The World’s Number-One Power
Chapter 2 - The Haven of Jihad
Chapter 3 - The Focus of the Universe
Chapter 4 - The Triple Oxymoron
Chapter 5 - Democracy as Enemy
Chapter 6 - Iran and Anti-Iran
Chapter 7 - Unwelcome Faith
Chapter 8 - A Strange Beast
Chapter 9 - The Feeble Ones
Chapter 10 - The Prophet and Women
Chapter 11 - The Eternal Conspirator
Chapter 12 - Esther and the King
Chapter 13 - The Great Satan
Chapter 14 - Five Days in August
Chapter 15 - A Universal Ideology
Chapter 16 - Sunrise Power against Sunset Power
Chapter 17 - Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein
Chapter 18 - West Stricken, Arab Stricken
Chapter 19 - State or Revolution
Chapter 20 - Six Centers of Power
Chapter 21 - Six Rival Centers of Power
Chapter 22 - Power Points in a No-Man’s Land
Chapter 23 - The “Nail” of the Imam
Chapter 24 - We Can!
Chapter 25 - A Case of National Schizophrenia
Chapter 26 - Pre-emptive War or Pre-emptive Surrender?
Chapter 27 - Conditions for Regime Change
Chapter 28 - Repression and Resistance
Chapter 29 - The Ethnic Time Bomb
Chapter 30 - A Heaving Volcano
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index
Copyright Page