Children of Paradise (88 page)

“velvet coup” plot and,
436
,
442

Tarh-e No (publishing house),
170
,
254

tavob
s (repenters),
92
–93,
257
,
299

Tehran

under Ahmadinejad,
341
–42

city planning and,
213
,
215
–16,
220
–21

divisions in,
221
,
417

geography of,
215
–16

growth and crowding in,
218
–19,
221

improvements in,
221
–22

mass graves in,
97
–98

real estate development,
220
–21

reformists and,
231

Tehran City Council,
229
–33,
325

Thermidor (month of French revolutionary calendar),
126
–28,
130
,
132
,
134
,
139

torture

of Afshari,
206
–8,
210
–11

bastinado,
90
,
363

in Islamic Republic,
42
,
90
–91

of Memarian,
280
–82

of Mirebrahimi,
272

of Mohammadi brothers,
200
–201

of Rafizadeh,
264
,
266

under shah,
91

See also
flogging; prisons

totalitarianism,
64
,
143

trade sanctions,
83
,
354
,
462
–64

Tudeh Party (communist),
11
,
68
,
84

twelve imams,
13
,
27
,
29
,
63

underground press,
52

United Fundamentalist Front,
351

United Nations

funding of NGOs from,
270

Iran-Iraq War and,
86
,
88

prison observers from,
93

refugees and,
311

women’s rights and,
359

United States

attitudes toward,
131

Bazargan working with,
48
–49

“civil society” as tool of,
389

coup against Mossadegh,
11

hostage crisis at embassy of,
39
,
41
–42,
69
,
83
–84,
86
,
247
,
340

influence on shah,
28

Iran-Contra affair and,
87
,
447

Islamic nationalists and,
31

Khomeini view of,
28
–29

shah and,
39

shooting down airliner,
88

“velvet coup” plot and,
436
–38,
441
,
444

viewed as aggressor,
236

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
30
,
75

universities

attacks after election of 2009,
416

closing of,
69

insecure atmosphere in 1980s,
71

in Mousavi era,
139

purges,
44
,
69
,
71

under Rafsanjani,
132
–33,
187
–89,
246

reopening,
70

See also
Eighteenth of Tir campus crisis;
names of individual universities

University of Mashhad,
15

University of Tehran,
194
–98,
416

utopianism,
12
,
15
,
64
,
74
,
95
,
127
, 464

Vanstiphout, Wouter,
217

velayat-e faqih
(rule of Islamic jurisconsult)

in constitution,
40
,
85

Ganji on, 322,
323

as incompatible with republic, 322

as Islamized monarchy,
142

Khomeini’s theory of,
15

revision of role,
101

Revolutionary Council and,
34

“velvet coup” conspiracy

alleged collaborators in,
441
–42

confessions in,
439
–40,
445

Fazlinejad treatise on,
435
–39

trials and,
439
–43,
446

Voice of America,
351

“We Are the Writers!” (open letter),
174
,
176
–77

Weber, Max,
319
,
323
,
439
–40

websites

based in Europe,
311

Iranian.com,
403
–4

Roozonline,
419
,
427
,
457

suppression of reformist,
410

“velvet coup” trial and,
267
,
410
,
446

Women’s News,
376
,
379
,
385

West and Western culture

Al-e Ahmad and,
7
–9

cinema and,
24

Heidegger and,
77

Iranian elites and,
5

Khatami rejecting,
151
–52

Soroush and,
70
–71

support for reformists in,
440
–41

Western thought

humanism in,
75

Khatami on,
151
–52

political theory and,
137
–38

Soroush and,
59
–63

“velvet coup” plot and,
439
–41

westoxication,
26
,
77
,
115
,
151

Westoxication
(Al-e Ahmad),
7
–9,
75

“What Is Enlightenment?” (Kant),
80

What Is Science? What Is Philosophy?
(Soroush),
67

Where Are You, Hasanak?
(Parnian),-166–67

White Revolution,
28

women

in Basij militia,
45

charged with sexual crimes,
380
–81

as political prisoners,
96
–97

rights of,
120
,
386

rural,
217
–18

suffrage for,
28
,
36

Women’s News (website),
376
,
379

women’s rights movement

Amini and,
359
,
386

demonstrations and,
399
–400

in election of 2009,
359

stoning and,
393
–95

Wright, Frank Lloyd,
213

Yas-e No
(newspaper),
241

Yazdi, Ebrahim (politician),
21

Zalzadeh, Ebrahim (editor),
177

Zan
(newspaper),
370

Zanan
(journal),
119
–20, 374,
381

Zavarei, Reza (judiciary official),
156

Zaydis (sect),
117

Zibakalam, Sadegh (student),
72

Zweig, Stefan,
435
,
449
–50