Children of Paradise (79 page)

bombings (1981),
43

bonyad
s (conglomerates connected to the state),
134

Bread and Wine
(Silone),
32

Brinton, Crane,
127
,
134
,
138

Bush, George W.,
118
,
236
,
325
,
444
–45

Calvin, John,
449
–50

Capital
(Marx),
66

Capri Cinema (Tehran),
26

Castellio, Sebastian,
450

cease-fire, in Iran-Iraq War,
88
,
94

censorship,
42
,
71
,
236

Center for Islamic Thought and Art,
55

Center for Strategic Research

directors of,
146
,
318

Islamic studies at,
141
–42

lectures at,
145

Marxism and,
143
–44

as think tank,
140
–41

centralization

of economy,
83

of power,
101
,
128

chain murders,
174
–80,
182
–83,
193
,
197
,
227
,
330
,
368
.
See also
serial killings

CIA,
279
,
436
–38,
444

cinema

attacks on,
31

destruction of theaters,
26

civil disobedience,
323

civil society

development of,
385

Fazlinejad on,
435
–36

Keane and,
437

NGOs promoting,
270
,
388

as tool of enemy,
389

civil war, in Iran,
43

classes

polarization of,
65

resentment,
133

in revolutions,
109

clerics

coup attempt against,
43

in Haghani Circle,
175

hierarchy of Shiite,
27
–28

Hosseiniyeh Ershad and,
16

ruling class of,
38
–39

See also
ayatollahs; grand ayatollahs

Committee of Human Rights Reporters,
456

Comprehensive Plan for Tehran,
214
,
216
–17,
223
,
227

confessions

forced, Rafizadeh’s essay about,
255

of individuals,
91
–92, 274,
277
,
281
–84,
288
–90,
294
–300,
453
–54

at “velvet coup” trials,
439
–40,
442
,
445

constitution

of Islamic Republic,
38

ratification of,
40

revision of,
101
–2

velayat-e faqih
in,
85

Constitutional Revolution of 1905, 322

Constitutional Watch Committee,
305
–9

constitutionalism, 322

Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge, The
(Soroush),
113
,
118
,
121
–22

counterrevolutionaries,
35

Cultural Revolution,
69
–70,
340
,
453

Cultural Revolution Institute,
69
–70,
73

curricula, Islamization of,
44
,
69
–71

Daftar Tahkim (student board),
187
–88,
191
–93,
195
–97,
211
,
340

Darabi, Delara (woman executed for juvenile crime),
389
–90,
396
–97

“Dare to Know” (Soroush lecture),
80

Dastgheib, Hashemi (ayatollah),
23

Davani, Pirouz (activist),
170

Davari Ardakani, Reza (essayist),
75
,
79
,
112

death commissions,
95
–96,
99
–100

death penalty

blood money and,
385

under Islamic Republic,
90

democracy

directed,
15
,
30

impact of city planning on,
220

Islamic morality in,
121

local politics and,
224
,
232

power in,
66

Soroush on,
121
,
328
–29

theories of,
144
–45

Democracy and Civil Society
(Keane),
437

demonstrations

after election of 2009,
414
–17,
423
–24

for Khomeini,
26

of mourning for Ayatollah Montazeri,
434

on official holidays,
454

against shah,
30
–32,
35

student,
195
–98,
372

for women’s rights,
387
,
394
,
399
–400

Derakhshan, Hossein (blogger),
443
–45

determinism,
62
,
65
,
119

Dialectic Conflict
(Soroush),
53
–54,
67

dialectics,
65
,
67

Dorri-Najafabadi, Ghorbanali (intelligence minister),
178
–79

Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud (novelist),
172

Dungeon of Ghosts, The
(Ganji),
181

Durant, Will and Ariel,
365
,
367

Ebadi, Shirin (human rights lawyer),
280
,
386
,
389
,
438
,
441

economy

in 1980s,
82
–83

under Ahmadinejad,
339
–40,
343
–44

centralization of,
83

effect of Iran-Iraq War on,
88
,
89
,
130

inflation,
134
,
461

under Khatami,
349
–50

oil prices and,
350

“para-statal” sector,
133
–34

under Rafsanjani,
134

standard of living,
349

state control of,
84

trade sanctions and,
83
,
354
,
462
–64

See also
oil

Eighteenth of Tir campus crisis

arrests after,
199
–202,
372
–73

attacks on students during,
195
–99,
371

Ayatollah Montazeri on,
202

demonstrations after,
198
–99

Khatami on,
202
–4

elections

of 1997,
147
–49,
156
–58,
191
–92,
369
–70

of 1999,
227
–28

of 2000,
204
,
252
–53

of 2003,
232
,
270
–71

of 2004,
321

of 2005,
329
–32,
387
–88

of 2006,
347
–48

of 2008,
350
–51

of 2009,
351
–52,
355
,
405
–6,
409
–14,
422