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This is the first comprehensive survey of the forces which have been shaping and changing modern Iran and Iran´s foreign relations. In considering Pahlavi Iran, it looks at the roots of the 1979 revolution and the forces which were unleashed then. Anoushiravan Ehteshami reflects on how the country´s new elite emerged and how the new political forces changed Iran, its political economy and the country´s relations with the outside world.

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