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Author Archives: Matt McGregor

A Review of The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

May 16, 2016

Matt McGregor

Translated from the Persian by Tom Patterdale (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2012) In 1953, the CIA arrested the civilian Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadeq, and reinstated Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Mossadeq, a democrat who had nationalized the oil industry, was thrown … Continued

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