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In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the last El-Al flights to Tel Aviv. They arrived in Israel as refugees, having left everything behind including the only home Farideh’s father had ever known.Baba, as Farideh called her father, was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the United States in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir that chronicled the years of his life after exile: the confiscation of his passport while he attempted to return to Iran for his belongings, the resulting years of loneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return to his wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultry farm that had supported his family. Farideh translated her father’s memoir along with other documents she found in a briefcase after his death. Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home. As an intimate portrait of displacement and the construction of identity, as a story of family loyalty and cultural memory, Leaving Iran is an important addition to a growing body of Iranian–American narratives.

Jews, Iranian --- Iranian American women --- Iranians --- Refugees --- Goldin, Farideh, --- Family. --- Iranis --- Persians --- Ethnology --- Indo-Iranians --- Iranian Jews --- 1979 Islamic revolution --- dislocation --- Shirazi Jews --- immigration --- diaspora --- Iranian --- Shah --- Jewish

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), founded after the Iranian revolution in 1979, is one of the most powerful and prominent but least understood organizations in Iran. In this book, Annie Tracy Samuel presents an innovative and compelling history of this organization and, by using the Iran-Iraq War as a focal point, analyzes the links between war and revolution. Tracy Samuel provides an internal view of the IRGC by examining how the Revolutionary Guards have recorded and assessed the history of the war in the massive volume of Persian language publications produced by the organization's top members and units. This not only enhances our comprehension of the IRGC's roles and power in contemporary Iran, but also demonstrates how the history of the Iran-Iraq War has immense bearing on the Islamic Republic's present and future. In doing so, the book reveals how analyzing Iran's history provides the critical tools for understanding its actions today.

Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988. --- Sipāh-i Pāsdārān-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī (Iran) --- History. --- Iran --- History, Military. --- Politics and government --- Gulf War, 1980-1988 --- Iranian-Iraqi Conflict, 1980-1988 --- Iraq-Iran War, 1980-1988 --- Iraqi-Iranian Conflict, 1980-1988 --- Persian Gulf War, 1980-1988 --- Ḥaras al-Thawrah al-Islāmīyah (Iran) --- Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (Iran) --- Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Iran --- Revolutionary Guards Corps (Iran) --- سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامى (ايران) --- سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامى --- Pasdaran (Iran) --- حرس الثورة الإسلامية (ايران) --- I.R.G.C. (Islamic Revolution Guards Corps) --- Revolutionary Guards (Iran) --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Iran. --- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988

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foreign policy of countries --- Islam and politics --- Islamic civilization --- Islamic Revolution --- revolutions and uprisings --- human rights --- Social Sciences --- Public Policy & Administration --- islam and politics --- islamic civilization --- islamic revolution --- Shīʻah --- Political science --- Politics and government --- Political science. --- Shīʻah. --- Iran --- Iran. --- Imamites --- Shia --- Shiism --- Twelvers (Islam) --- Islamic sects --- Alids --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Administration --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Ir --- Islamskai͡a Respublika Iran --- República Islâmica do Ir --- Shīʻah --- Politics and government. --- Shīʻah.

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This work is about the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its ascent to become one of the most formidable entities in Iran and the Middle East. It follows the organization from its birth in the midst of the 1979 revolution through the succeeding decades of the Islamic Republic's maturation.

Civil-military relations --- Sipāh-i Pāsdārān-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī (Iran) --- Iran --- History, Military. --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Ḥaras al-Thawrah al-Islāmīyah (Iran) --- Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (Iran) --- Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Iran --- Revolutionary Guards Corps (Iran) --- سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامى (ايران) --- سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامى --- Pasdaran (Iran) --- حرس الثورة الإسلامية (ايران) --- I.R.G.C. --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- I.R.G.C. (Islamic Revolution Guards Corps) --- Revolutionary Guards (Iran) --- Politics and government --- Sipāh-i Pāsdārān-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī (Iran) --- History, Military --- Iran. --- Civil-military relations - Iran --- Iran - Politics and government - 1997 --- -Iran - History, Military