The Scarlet Stone (2021)

The support of many intellectuals and leftists for Ayatollah Khomeini is considered to be one of most important factors for the triumph of the Islamic regime in the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Siavash Kasrai, a celebrated poet and vocal dissident of the Shah and the Pahlavi Regime, was among such leftist intellectuals. Fearing persecution by the Islamic Republic of Iran,... Read all