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Asian Affairs, 2023 Book Review Ali Mirsepassi. The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2023. pp. 290. Bibl, Index. Pb. £14.99 ISBN 978-1-3995-1141-4 The past few years have seen a number of recantations, confessions and even cringing requests for absolution from Iranian revolutionaries of all colours, both religious and secular, apologising for their activities that brought about the Islamic republic in the 1970s. They admit not only to having grossly exaggerated the number of political executions under the Shah, but also to having murdered some of their own or, in the case of the popular leftist author Samad Behrangi, to having witnessed him drowning in the Aras river, but then blaming his death on the Shah’s secret police, the SAVAK. One of the most famous penitents was the journalist Akbar Ganji, once a member of the Revolutionary Guards, who later wrote articles critical of the regime and was jailed in Evin prison. He was eventually released and went to live in the US. These retractions, mostly from the leftists who initiated the revolution, express regret for their failure to achieve anything other than opening the door to the rule of the
Asian Affairs – Taylor & Francis
Published: Mar 15, 2023
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