Children of Paradise (85 page)

election of 2000,
204
,
252
–53

election of 2004,
321
,
325
,
437

election of 2008,
350
–51

election of 2012,
461

hard-liners and,
191
–94

under Khomeini,
38

reformists in,
204
,
239
,
241
,
252
–53,
321

role of,
38
,
161

under shah,
11

Parnian, Mohammad (poet),
166
–67

Parsons, Talcott,
440

Passmore, John,
60
–61

patrimonialism,
319
,
323
,
440

philosophy

analytic,
60
,
78
,
79
,
118
,
119
,
143

continental,
60
,
76
,
119

Greek,
8
,
30

Islamic,
58
–59,
62
,
75
–76

of science,
61
,
71
,
119

Philosophy of History
(Soroush),
67

Pirmoazen, Nouradin (reformist politician),
351

Plato,
15
,
22
,
30
,
37
,
64

“Playing with Death” (Ganji),
182

Pleasant Aroma of Service,
348

pluralism, religious,
111
,
143

poets and poetry

Amini as,
361
,
362
,
364

circles,
12
,
54
,
364
–65,
368

classical Persian,
57
,
135

Mojabi as,
365

Mokhtari as,
165

Parnian as,
166
–67

of Rumi,
59
,
62
,
116
,
135

Soroush and,
57
,
59

political development,
157
,
223
–24,
252

Political Sociology
(Bashiriyeh),
144

Popper, Karl

critical rationalism of,
114

Fardid view of,
78
–79

Heidegger advocates and,
79

influences on,
64

Kiyan
Circle and,
112

pseudoscience and,
61

Soroush and,
60
–61,
64
,
76
,
112

on theories,
314

Post, Heinz,
61
–62

postmodernism,
118

Poulantzas, Nicos,
138
,
144

Pourmohammadi, Mostafa (interior minister),
334
–35

Pouyandeh, Mohammad Jafar (writer),
171
,
174
–75,
178

poverty,
222
,
344

Power Play: Ruhollah Hosseinian
(Rafizadeh),
182

pragmatism

Iran-Contra affair and,
87

in Islamic Republic,
94

Premonitions from the End of Times
(Fardid),
78

president and presidency

constitution establishing elected,
38

weakening of,
85

See also
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud; Bani-Sadr, Abolhassan; Khatami, Mohammad; Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi

press

law,
194
–95,
204

prosecution of,
235

underground,
52

See also names of newspapers and media networks

prime minister

Bazargan as,
35
–37,
47

elimination of position,
101

Mossadegh as,
11

Mousavi as,
85

Prison
59
,
206
–9

prisons

under Islamic Republic,
89
–92

massacre in 1988 at,
97
–98,
243
,
249
,
334
–35,
363
,
432
–33

“Program for Social Safety,”
348

rapes in,
207
,
237
,
429
–31,
449

reforms,
93

under shah,
84
–85,
90

wardens of,
90
–91,
93

See also
Evin Prison; Gohardasht Prison; Kahrizak Detention Center

purges

in army,
41
–42

committees for,
71

of leftists from government,
140

of “rogue elements,”
179

in universities,
44
,
69
,
71

Qasr (prison),
17

Qom, seminaries in,
8
,
53
,
71
,
79
,
84
,
116
,
122
,
142
,
150
,
159
,
161
,
194
,
219
,
346

Quine, Willard Van Orman,
113
–15

Quran,
116
,
263

Qutb, Sayyid (Egyptian ideologue),
84

Radio Farda,
242
,
256
, 274

Rafizadeh, Shahram (writer),
165
–73,
177
–78,
182
–84,
253
–55,
257
–58,
260
–67,
275
,
282
–83,
288
–90,
294
,
295
,
297
–99,
301
–5,
307
–13

See also
arrested bloggers

Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi (president)

chain murders and,
183
,
204
,
330

economy and,
134

in election of 2005,
329
–34

at Hosseiniyeh Ershad,
16

Islamic Left and,
146

new constitution and,
101

pragmatic faction of,
84

presidency of,
102
–3,
129
–30,
148
,
172

prison massacre and,
98

on Revolutionary Council,
34

Soroush and,
123

as speaker of parliament,
83

universities under,
187
–89,
246

Rahnavard, Zahra (artist)

under house arrest,
448
–49, 464

as wife of Mousavi,
85
,
359

Rajavi, Massoud (Mojahedin leader),
32
,
94

rape

of child,
380
,
382

of demonstrators,
430
–32

in prisons,
207
,
237
,
429
–31,
449

Rasht (city),
243
,
245

rationalism,
59
,
80
,
114

Razaei, Haji (judge),
380
,
414