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Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran (Reprint Edition) by Elaine Sciolino Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-7432-8479-8 / 0743284798 ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-8479-0 / 9780743284790 In 1979, a clerical revolution in Iran swept aside the inarguably corrupt government of Shah Reza Pahlavi and set in motion events that would make that nation a world pariah. In the place of one dictatorship came another, one led "by an old bearded cleric in a turban and cloak whose answer to the ki |