TWO BOOKS A SHORT SUMMARY

Iran From Past to Future, Ferdosi

Publications, 2010, 305 p

Iran Myths, Veracity, Sanctions, Ferdosi

Publications 2016, 447 p
 Iran - From Past to Future

Part 1

1 Iran in the West, in the Middle - in the East, in the Central Asia and
along the Silkroads
2 Myth, Legend, Migrations Zarathustra Zoroastrism the Median
Empire

Part 2

3 Achaemenids - Persia and Greece the Firetempel Alexander the

Great Seleucids the Parthian Empire Sasanids From Ardashir
to the last battles
4 Arabian expansion Arabian and Abbasid Caliphate
5 Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids, the Turks, the Mongols, the Safavid
Dynasti, the Sufi

Part 3

6 From Concessions to Revolution the Iranian-Russian wars the

Constitutional Revolution Foreign influence
7 The Twentieth Century The powerplay CIA, the coup 1953
The White revolutionen The Islamic Revolution - After 1979
Constitutional problems Radicals and fundamentalists

Appendix
Notes, Select Bibliography, Index, Notes on the Text - Illustrations
 Iran Myths, Veracity, Sanctions
I. The Image and the Myth
Montesquieus Persian Letters - Marathon and Termophyle
About what we seldom talk
Anahita och Artemisias
Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids

II. Some Collected Articles

Shah Abbas, the Great - Nader Shah, A Tyrannical Icon -
Amir Kabir visionr i ond
Reza Shah Pahlavi From Coup to Crown, Reformer and Loser, A
mixed memorandum

III. Towards our time

Iranian oil A Strategy, before and today - Powerplay between
WW1 and WW2 - from 1940 to 1979
Oil and the Silkroads- Silkroads and the Caspian Sea - Caspian Sea
myth, oil and pipelines
Iran, Protestantism, the Ethic and Weber
The Iran-Iraq War, Shatt El-Arab

IV. Presidential Elections - Which Way?

Presidential Elections after the Arabian Springtime and
then? - How about Iran under Hasan Rouhani?
Women, Equality and Women Movement - Women and
Emanicipation - by Dr. Parivash Ranjbar

V. Sanctions, Nuclear power

Resolutions, Sanctions - From negotiations to The Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
From Khomeini to Rouhani - Extended time for negotiations

APPENDIX
Abbreviations Index - Reference Books - Summary of -
provisions the Nuclear Deal
Notes