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Breaking a long silence, the former president of Iran tells his story. From his early days in Paris as one of Ayatollah Khomeini's closest advisers to his rise to power and fall to exile, Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr was at the eye of the storm.
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Kirkus评论
Bani-Sadr, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the American hostage crisis and the early stages of Iran's war with Iraq, offers an interesting--though frequently incredible and consistently self-serving--memoir of his brief tenure in office. The author portrays himself as the man who not only gave succor to the Ayatollah Khomeini during the years of exile in Iraq and Paris, but who was responsible for much of Khomeini's prominence during that period. By his account, Bani-Sadr is: a moderate who tried to foster democracy in Iran and resisted the authoritarian impulses of the fanatical Shiite clerics; an inspiring military leader who reformed the Shah's military and led the army to a stunning victory over Iraq in the first year of the war (only to be thwarted by mullahs who wanted the war to continue); and an incorruptible public official who, almost alone among Iranian leaders, resisted the wicked influences of the US and the Soviet Union. In the tradition of Persian intrigue, his story is replete with fantastic conspiracy theories, pronounced as incontrovertible fact. Among these are allegations of secret alliances between the Iranian clerics and American officials and an accusation that America surreptitiously started the Iran-Iraq war. Bani-Sadr adds that because of his resistance to Khomeini's attempts to perpetuate the power of the mullahs, he was forced from office and into exile in June 1981. As a historical document, this is a memoir of some importance, and Bani-Sadr's insights into the Machiavellian politics of revolutionary Iran are often absorbing. Nonetheless, frequent sensational accusations render his tale an eccentric, implausible commentary on the tragic folly of the Iranian Revolution. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Choice 评论
What makes this latest of several dozen books on the Iranian Revolution unique is its authorship by Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr, former president of the Iranian revolutionary regime, who escaped to exile in France in mid-1981. As advisor to the Ayatollah Khomeini and elected president of Iran, Bani-Sadr was a key participant in the revolution as well as one of its major critics. Breaking a long silence, Bani-Sadr laments Khomeini's perversion of the revolution's original goal of establishing a democratic regime and his imposition of a clerical dictatorship. He paints a negative portrait of Khomeini, and levels startling accusations against several US presidents. He charges that Jimmy Carter made a secret arms deal with Iran to control oil prices, and accuses the Reagan-Bush campaign of making secret agreements on the American embassy hostages in order to influence the 1980 election. Although some aspects of this memoir are bound to be self-serving, its revelations invite close examination and it should make interesting reading for Middle East specialists and general readers. Includes documents. Undergraduate and graduate students and general readers.-R. H. Dekmejian, University of Southern California
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Bani-Sadr, who was president of Iran after the overthrow of the Shah and a close advisor to the Ayatollah Khomeini, reveals a great deal regarding behind-the-scenes U.S. involvement in Iranian politics. Now living in exile in Paris, he breaks his long-held silence to expose the dealings of three U.S. presidents with the Iranians as well as to describe the duplicity of Khomeini, who the author argues betrayed the spirit of the revolution. Bani-Sadr claims that the Reagan election team conspired with the Iranians to withhold the release of the hostages until after the election, thus permitting Reagan to claim the credit. He also makes some interesting comments about the involvement of Reagan and Bush in the Iran-contra arms scandal. This is a tale that is absolutely essential to read in order to appreciate contemporary Iranian politics and the 1979-80 revolution. For a wide audience.-- Sanford R. Silverburg, Catawba Coll., Salisbury, N.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.