The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran - Milani, Abbas
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The clerical regime in Iran has always partially defined itself in terms of its opposition to the United States. The founder of the regime, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, first used the Qoranic moniker of the Great Satan to refer to America. Today, not only the regime but its invariably self-serving narrative of U.S.-Iranian relations is facing challenges more serious than any in the past. In The Myth of the Great Satan, Iran expert Abbas Milani examines the history of America's relations with Iran and debunks the myth of the United States as the "Great Satan" as a necessary first step in…mehr

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The clerical regime in Iran has always partially defined itself in terms of its opposition to the United States. The founder of the regime, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, first used the Qoranic moniker of the Great Satan to refer to America. Today, not only the regime but its invariably self-serving narrative of U.S.-Iranian relations is facing challenges more serious than any in the past. In The Myth of the Great Satan, Iran expert Abbas Milani examines the history of America's relations with Iran and debunks the myth of the United States as the "Great Satan" as a necessary first step in establishing a new relationship between the two nations. Milani shows how, like all enduring myths, this one has some tangible roots in reality but that they have been used by the regime today, and by the Soviets before it, to obfuscate other elements and construct the myth. By revealing this history the lies and the myth can be exposed. By debunking the myth and establishing the realities of the complicated history of the two countries' entanglement, the author says, we can hope to establish normal relations between these two longtime adversaries. Abbas Milani is a research fellow and codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. He has published more than twenty books, the most recent is Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (2008).
Autorenporträt
Abbas Milani was born in Iran and educated in the United States. He taught at Tehran University's Faculty of Law and Political Science until 1986. For many years he was the chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Notre Dame De Namur University. Since 2002 he has been at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution; since 2005 he has been the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford. He has published more than twenty books, numerous articles, and monographs in both Persian and English. His memoir, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir (Mage Publisher) was a San Francisco Chronicle best seller; his translation of his own Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution went through more than twenty printings before being banned by the Iranian regime in February 2010. His Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (Syracuse University Press, 2009) offers biographical sketches of 150 of modern Iran's most influential artists, politicians, and entrepreneurs. His work has been translated into many languages. His Peacock Prince, a Political Life of the Shah will soon be published by Palgrave Press.