My turn to speak

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MY TURN
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Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious per-secution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But accord-ing to this former Iranian leader—forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs — the revolution's originál goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play a part." Breaking a long silence self-imposed during the Irán-Iraq War, former president Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr finally telis his own astonishing story of how the AyatoIIah Khomeini and his followers betrayed the spirit of the revolu-tion—and how U.S. leaders allegedly made secret deals with the ayatollahs.
Of the many accusations Bani-Sadr makes in My Tum to Speak, the most startiing are his charges that Jimmy Carter made secret arms deals to control oil prices and that Ronald Reagan and George Bush tried to arrange secret agreements on the American embassy hostages to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MY TURN
SPEAK
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious per-secution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But accord-ing to this former Iranian leader—forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs — the revolution's originál goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play a part." Breaking a long silence self-imposed during the Irán-Iraq War, former president Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr finally telis his own astonishing story of how the AyatoIIah Khomeini and his followers betrayed the spirit of the revolu-tion—and how U.S. leaders allegedly made secret deals with the ayatollahs.
Of the many accusations Bani-Sadr makes in My Tum to Speak, the most startiing are his charges that Jimmy Carter made secret arms deals to control oil prices and that Ronald Reagan and George Bush tried to arrange secret agreements on the American embassy hostages to affect the 1980 elec-tion. Bani-Sadr claims the Reagan admin-istration in tum supported the ayatollahs, who attacked the Great Satan only in
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slogans. He alsó draws uncompromising portraits of nearly all the Iranian leaders, beginning with Khomeini, whom he had closely advised since 1962. We Iearn the inside story of the Itan-Iraq War and are provided with a detailed account of the shattering of Iranian society. My Turn to Speak affords a unique opportunity to listen to a major historical figure confide his misgiv-ings, his illusions, and his hopes for his lost homeland and to learn more about the events that shaped the most widely felt revolution since 1917.
About the Author Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr is the fonmer for-eign ministerand former elected president of Iran. He is again in exile in Paris, where he spent many years before the revolution advising Ayatollah Khomeini. This book was written in collaboration with French joumalist and author Jean-Charles Deniau. Vissza