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Best books to learn The Iranian Revolution, in order

The Iranian Revolution can't be understood from its climax alone, so a good path lays the groundwork first. Start with the Shah's Iran and the pressures building beneath it, then the revolution itself and Khomeini's ascent, then the making of the Islamic Republic and its long global reverberations—so 1979 reads as the hinge of a longer story rather than a sudden rupture.

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