Recommended books for understanding Iran

Year of Publication: 2024

Iran: Dictatorship and Development
By Fred Halliday, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (Introduction)

Struggle for Alliance: Russia and Iran in the Era of War in Ukraine
By Abdolrasool Divsallar (Editor)

Iran at the Paris Peace Conference: International Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Imperial Nationalism
By Philip Grobien

Year of Publication: 2023

Year of Publication: 2022

Year of Publication: 2021

The Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran: The United States, Foreign Policy, and Political Rivalry since 1979
By Alex Vatanka

Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad

The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
By Ray Takeyh

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
By Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
By John Ghazvinian

Year of Publication: 2020

ReTargeting Iran
By David Barsamian et al.

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
By Ben Buchanan

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
By Christian Brose

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By Kim Ghattas

Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
By Philip N. Howard

The Fight for Iran: Opposition Politics, Protest, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Nation
By Ilan Berman

Contemporary Iran: Politics, Economy, Religion
By Farhang Morady

Year of Publication: 2019
Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad
By Daniel Byman

Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
By Amin Saikal

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change
By Ali M. Ansari

The Age of Sharp Power: China, Russia and Iran: The Interference is not Soft. The Italian Case
By Paolo Messa

Iran’s Emissaries of Terror: How mullahs’ embassies run the network of espionage and murder
By NCRI U.S. Representative Office, National Council of Resistance of Iran

Year of Publication: 2017

Iran Reconsidered: The Nuclear Deal and the Quest for a New Moderation
By Suzanne Maloney

Year of Publication: 2014

Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian and Shahir Shahidsaless

Year of Publication: 1988

The Satanic Verses
By Salman Rushdie