Volume 29, Number 18 · November 18, 1982
The Revolution Against Itself
By Shaul Bakhash
Iran Since the Revolution
by Sepehr Zabih
Johns Hopkins University Press, 247 pp., $21.50
Iran: The Untold Story
by Mohamed Heikal
Pantheon, 217 pp., $14.50
Iran Between Two Revolutions
by Ervand Abrahamian
Princeton University Press, 561 pp., $45.00; $14.50 (paper)
When Abol-Hassan Bani-Sadr, the first president of Iran's Islamic Republic, and Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the Mojahedin-e Khalq guerrilla organization, fled Iran in July 1981 and arrived in Paris to establish their National Resistance Council and a government in exile, both men believed the fall of Ayatollah Khomeini to be imminent. Rajavi was then predicting the collapse of the regime in a matter of weeks. Today, more than a year later, Khomeini and his allies not only maintain their hold on the country but have survived a series of convulsions.
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