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Takeover in Tehran The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy CaptureIn this first ever insider account of the American Embassy takeover in 1979, Massoumeh Ebtekar attempts to correct twenty years of misrepresentation by the Western media of what the aims of both the Iranian students and the populist revolution they personified were, and have since remained. She also explains, in considerable detail, how the mullahs came to see with the eager complicity of the international media and its own western political agendas these students as a vanguard of their own theocracy, rather than of the much broader cultural revolution which had ousted the the regime of Shah Pahlevi, installed through a U.S. sponsored coup in 1953. In February of 2000, a month before Madeleine Albright’s admission of the previously secret C.I.A. involvement in this 1953 coup, Iran initiated a series of run off elections to its parliament. To date, 70% of the candidates elected have been characterised by the Western media as moderates, among them, like Ebtekar, students who took over the American Embassy in 1979. These moderates, like the current president Khatami, all ran on a platform of breaking the stranglehold the mullahs have maintained on politics since 1979, and establishing an open civil society within the Islamic state of Iran. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the rapidly proliferating international phenomenon of peoples attempting to preserve their independence and culture from the overwhelming hegemony of American dominance in the global community of nations, and in how the independent American media continues to play an active, no matter how innocent and unwitting, role as an instrument of American foreign policy. About the AuthorAs a young medical student, Dr. Massoumeh Ebtekar participated in the capture of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. Using the anglicized name Mary, her presence on the television news became instantly recognizable throughout the hostage crisis which ensued as its primary spokesperson, hers became the public face of the fledgling Iranian revolution. Since then, she has become a mother Editorial Director of Farzaneh received her Ph.D. in Immunology been an outspoken advocate of...
ISBN: 0889224439
Author: Massoumeh Ebtekar, Fred A. Reed, Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha (Preface)
Category: Foreign Relations
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