Inside Iran

Auteur

MEDEA BENJAMIN is one of America's best-known 21st-century activists. Co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange, she is the author of Drone Warfare (OR Books, 2012) and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection (OR Books, 2016) and has played an active role in the Green Party. A frequent contributor to Alternet, she has a Master's Degree in both public health and economics. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation's Peace Prize; she is also recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She is mother of two children and currently lives in Washington, D.C.

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U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism in this accessible and fascinating story.

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1. The Founding of the Iranian State
2. Complex power dynamics: elected leaders, religious leaders and the military
3. What makes the economy tick and the effects of international sanctions
4. Government crackdowns on human rights
5. Iran's theocracy allows freedom of religion for some
6. Conditions in prisons and capital punishment
7. The Paradoxical Status of Iranian Women
8. The history of Iranian relations with the US and the West
9. Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East and beyond
10. The Way Forward