From the Shah's tile to the revolution's prisons - Ehsan Naraqi

Except for very partial exceptions, no Iranian who closely experienced the fall of the Pahlavi Empire and the birth of the Islamic Revolution can yet give an honest certificate. In the fifty hours he spent with the Shah during the last days of his rule, as well as in the thirty-three months he spent in the Revolution's prisons, Ehsan Naraqi was insightful in both cases. He provided us with a valuable and accessible book at the same time, shedding light on the turning points of the Iranian Revolution. The book presents us with a broad scene of a political earthquake similar to the French Revolution of 1789 or the Russian Revolution of 1917. In its successive broad scenes, a dark face appears of unscrupulous flatterers and scoundrels deserving to be hanged. Also, influential faces appear, such as the enlightened Empress Farah, who failed to curb the corruption of the royal family, and like Muslim youth condemned to death, crushed by the machinery they helped set in motion.