Islamic republic founded by the 1979 Revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy; successor to a continuous Persian/Iranian statehood of great antiquity.
Authoritative account of Iran's transformation from the Qajar/Pahlavi era through the Islamic Republic.
Account of the 1953 coup whose legacy fed the 1979 Revolution that founded the Islamic Republic.
Award-winning novel of a working-class Tehran family in the years after the Islamic Revolution, a genuine post-1979 Iran-set work (dropping Persepolis and A Tale of Love and Darkness, both memoirs, and thus excluded as nonfiction).