Children of Paradise (81 page)

Gruen, Victor,
212
–16

Guardian Council,
38
,
131
–32,
204
,
253
,
321
,
414

guardianship,
29
–30,
75
,
111

Habermas, Jürgen,
144
,
436
–37,
440

Hadian, Nasser (political scientist),
345

Hafez (poet),
135

Haghani Circle,
175
,
334

Haghighi, Alireza (political scientist),
22
–25,
31
,
32
,
44
–47

Hajizadeh, Hamid (poet),
177

Hajjarian, Saeed (reformist leader)

arrest of,
372
,
418

attack on,
228
–30,
254
,
351

Bashiriyeh and,
143
,
145

at Center for Strategic Research,
141
,
143
,
154

defining reformist goals and strategies,
147

on delegitimizing government,
320

forced to confess against Weber,
439
–40

in intelligence ministry,
141
,
180

local politics and,
223
–24

as mayor,
227
–28,
230

radicals and,
324

at reformist seminar,
319

studying political science,
143

trial of,
439
–40

“velvet coup” plot and,
436
–37

Hakimi, Mohammad Reza (cleric),
52
–53,
56

hangings,
96
,
248
,
379
–80.
See also
executions

hard sciences,
70
,
71

Hassan (imam),
63

Hedayat, Sadegh (novelist),
135

Hegel, Georg,
64
–65

Heidegger, Martin,
75
–77

Hezbollah,
35
,
42
,
45
,
56
,
68
,
83
–84,
160

Hobbes, Thomas,
137
–38,
144

hojjat ol-eslam
(clerical rank),
102

Hojjatieh (anti-Bahai group),
340

homosexuality,
90

honor killings,
386

Hossein (imam),
63

Hosseinian, Ruhollah (intelligence official),
263

Hosseiniyeh Ershad

Barzagan memorial at,
176

Bashiriyeh at,
136

Motahhari at,
16
–17

Mousavi at,
85

raid on,
18

as recruiting ground for Mojahedin,
18
,
32

Rokhsefat at,
51

Shariati at,
16
–17,
136

Soroush at,
59

hostage crisis at American embassy,
39
,
41
–42,
69
,
83
–84,
86
,
247
,
340

hostages, held in Lebanon,
87

Howzeh-ye Andisheh va Honar-e Islami (Center for Islamic Thought and Art),
55
–56

Human Rights Watch,
299

humanism,
75

humanities,
70
–71

Hume, David,
61

Hundred Years of Philosophy, A
(Passmore),
60

hunger strikes,
93
,
182
,
201
, 322

Hussein, Saddam,
46
,
94

ijtihad
(interpretation),
159

ILNA (reformist news agency), 274,
295
,
299
,
303

imams, twelve,
13
,
27
,
29

indeterminism,
63

inductive fallacy,
65

inflation,
134
,
461

intellectuals

admiring Fardid,
77

attacked by Ansar-e Hezbollah,
123

call for free speech,
174
–75

chain murders of,
174
–80

interviews of,
57

in
Kiyan
Circle,
112
–13

revolutions and,
127
–28

support of Soroush,
123

intelligence ministry

hardline networks and,
237

reformist government and,
237
,
239

religious magistrates and,
99
–100

intelligence services,
48
–49,
124
,
141

intercession, clerical,
32
–33

Iran
(newspaper),
367

Iran-Contra affair,
87
,
447

Iran-e Javan
(newspaper supplement),
368
,
370

Iran-Iraq War

burial of dead from, 342

casualties,
82
–83

cease-fire,
88
,
94

dividing Iran’s political factions,
41
–42

economy after,
130

international reaction to Iraqi invasion,
41

Iranian offensive in,
46

missiles in,
82
–83

outbreak of,
41

refugees after,
130

siege of Abadan,
45
–46

unconditional surrender in,
82

Iranian.com,
403

Iranian Writers Association,
174
,
177
–78

Iran’s Revolution in Two Steps
(Bazargan),
186

Iraq

Amini reporting from,
376
–77

breaking cease-fire in 1988,
94

Khomeini exiled in,
31

U.S. invasion of,
376
–77

war with Iran.
See
Iran-Iraq War

IRIB (television network),
303

Isfahan,
97

Islamic Azad University,
246

Islamic Government
(Khomeini),
29
–30

Islamic Iran Participation Front,
224
–25

Islamic law.
See
sharia

Islamic Left

anti-Americanism of,
131

in Bashiriyeh classes,
140

becoming reform movement,
140
–41,
144

Khomeini demobilizing,
89

Mousavi and,
83
–84

participatory democracy in,
140
–41

student hostage-takers and,
83
–84,
340

students in,
133

think tank,
107

Islamic philosophy

Greek influences on,
75
–76

Soroush and,
58
–59,
62

Islamic Republican Party

Bani-Sadr and,
41

bombing of headquarters of,
43

factions in 1980s,
83
–84

founders of,
83

power of,
34
–35

Rokhsefat’s Howzeh and,
56

students allied with,
69

Islamic Revolution of 1979

causes of,
6
–7

prolonging fervor of,
98

theories of Bashiriyeh on,
138
–39

Islamic Right,
83

Islamic Students Associations,
133
,
139
,
187
–91