- This superbly written book is a fascinating and detailed dissection of the current Iranian religious regime and the suppression of its reformers. It's thoroughly enlightening on every level.
- It focuses on the incredible stories of six principal activists and dissenters. Their stories are ones of sheer bravery and heroism. The regime is utterly brutal, murderous, and misogynistic on every level.
- I can do no better than provide this excellent summary of the book inside the cover:
'The moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: the promise of the 1979 revolution, its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people’s undying spirit of resistance.
Fuelled by Iranians’ dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah's ailing repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution's leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. Award-winning journalists Bozorgmeh Sharafedin and Yeganah Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran’s recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope as crises engulf the country.
MEDHI KARROUBI: a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being casted out of its inner circle.
HILA SEDIGHI: a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers' hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams.
AMIR MOGHADAM: an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth.
SAID RAHMANI: a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself.
ROZHIN YOUSEFZADEH and KOSAR EFTEKHARI: both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman, Life, Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price.
Through vivid and original reporting, Stolen Revolution offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centering ordinary Iranians' lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed - and those brave individuals who fought back.'
- Both authors are highly experienced, award-winning journalists who spent five years working on this book, interviewing hundreds of Iranians, many in fear for their lives.
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