Iran Memoir

A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government.

My family are followers of the Baha'i Faith, a religion founded in Iran and practiced by millions of people worldwide today. Muslims in Iran consider it a blasphemous, illegitimate religion. For more than four decades, Baha'is in Iran have been stripped of all human rights. We are routinely arrested, detained, tortured, imprisoned, and executed without cause. This is my story about what life was like living under Islamic rule.

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.

Kateryna ha 28 anni, ha fatto la modella, ha amici sparsi per l'Europa e all'inizio del 2022 spera che in Ucraina scoppi la guerra: «Non sono così vile da augurarmi di vivere sotto il ricatto di Vladimir Putin per anni, contando sul fatto che il compito di affrontarlo spetti poi a un'altra generazione invece che alla mia». Oggi Kateryna è un soldato. Assim ha 23 anni, studia Ingegneria aerospaziale all'università di Teheran e dal giorno in cui Mahsa Amini è morta, il 16 settembre 2022, con il suo gruppo ha cominciato a scrivere il nome di Mahsa nei bagni delle università e nei vagoni dei treni.

"Resilience Across Borders: From Iran to America" encapsulates the riveting memoir, "SplendidVenus, A Dream," weaving a tapestry of courage, perseverance, and the pursuit of freedom. Across its expansive 89,000-word narrative, the author unveils a rich mosaic of life experiences set against the tumultuous backdrop of post-revolutionary Iran. Within this landscape of societal constraints and pervasive misogyny, the author embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery and resilience, ultimately charting a course towards the shores of America.

स्मृति ज़ुबिन ईरानी भारत की वीमेन एंड चाइल्ड डेवलपमेंट मिनिस्टर और टेक्सटाइल मिनिस्टर हैं. राजनीति में आने से पहले स्मृति एक प्रसिद्ध टीवी शो में मुख्य रोल कर चुकी हैं और तब से पूरे देश में एक पहचाना जाने वाला चेहरा रही हैं. ह्यूमन रिसोर्स डेवलपमेंट और इन्फॉर्मेशन ब्रॉडकास्टिंग मिनिस्ट्री में रह चुकी स्मृति, इस समय भारत की सबसे कम उम्र की कैबिनेट मंत्री हैं.

It is an explosive true story of survival, betrayal, and the moment America lost its grip on the Middle East. On November 4, 1979, 52 Americans were taken hostage inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, an act that stunned the world and sparked a 444-day standoff that shattered U.S. diplomacy and changed global politics forever. In this pulse-pounding narrative, acclaimed historian Davis Truman pulls back the curtain on the backroom deals, psychological torment, and international missteps that defined one of the longest hostage crises in modern history.

Iran has suggested that the US government staged the infamous 9/11 attacks in New York City - an insult in the eyes of Al Qaeda, the terrorist group behind 9/11, who called the attacks "the greatest and biggest operation ever committed against America". No word on Iran's theories about the Kennedy assassination or the moon landing.