{"id":302568,"date":"2023-02-24T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=302568"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:57:50","slug":"struan-stevenson-dictators-and-revolution-iran-a-contemporary-history-book-launch-at-the-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/struan-stevenson-dictators-and-revolution-iran-a-contemporary-history-book-launch-at-the-uk-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Struan Stevenson, \u201cDictators and Revolution- Iran, a Contemporary History\u201d Book Launch at the UK Parliament\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-302570\" title=\"struan stevenson conference book 22022023 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/struan-stevenson-conference-book-22022023-1.jpg\" alt=\"struan stevenson conference book 22022023 1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/struan-stevenson-conference-book-22022023-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/struan-stevenson-conference-book-22022023-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/struan-stevenson-conference-book-22022023-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/struan-stevenson-conference-book-22022023-1-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/struan-stevenson-conference-book-22022023-1-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a conference in the United Kingdom\u2019s parliament on Wednesday, Mr. Struan Stevenson, a former Member of the European and Scotland\u2019s parliaments, revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/9464752203?s=books&amp;crid=3VH12VYQF2QCD&amp;keywords=iran%27s+democratic+revolution&amp;sprefix=iran%27s+democratic+revolution,stripbooks-intl-ship,189&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl&amp;language=en_US&amp;sr=1-1&amp;linkCode=gs2&amp;linkId=7444eea281d52f7562701f634f460861&amp;tag=tmereferral-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his new book<\/a>, \u201cDictators and Revolution- Iran, A Contemporary History.\u201d The book, as evident by its title, sheds light on Iran\u2019s contemporary history and how the Pahlavi dictatorship helped the ruling theocracy to hijack the 1979 anti-monarchic revolution. The book-revealing event was attended by several British lawmakers and members of the Iranian diaspora.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In his remarks, Mr. Stevenson, now the Coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change (CiC), underlined that the book explains the ominous, corrupted, and barbaric unity between the mullahs and the monarchial dictatorship, which has hindered generation after generation from realizing their democratic aspirations. He also referred to Shah\u2019s son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/anews\/who-is-who\/selling-a-dead-horse-reza-pahlavis-bid-to-market-a-trashed-monarchy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reza Pahlavi<\/a>\u2019s efforts to resuscitate the deposed monarchy and how he speaks of democracy while refusing to denounce his father\u2019s crimes. He also referred to his support of the clerical regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and how he has acknowledged his \u201cbilateral contact\u201d with the terrorist entity.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIran is once again in a revolutionary situation. In times past, Iranians have been robbed of experiencing democracy and becoming a true republic of the people, for the people, and by the people, by various foreign interventions, coups, and monarchist and clerical machinations. This time around, a viable democratic alternative with no vestiges of the monarchy or the clergy has grown in opposition to both. A vision presented by Maryam Rajavi and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/maryam-rajavis-ten-point-plan-for-future-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten Point Plan<\/a> for the future of Iran, together with the international and domestic solidarity assembled by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), heralds new hope that authoritarian outcomes can be averted, and a truly democratic republic can be realized,\u201d the book reads in part.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The foreword of Mr. Stevenson\u2019s book is by Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., Assistant Secretary of State-Political-Military-Affairs (2001-2005). \u201cFor not only does Stevenson distill the relevant facts surrounding the country\u2019s most consequential political figures and civic challenges, but he illuminates the defining curse that for generations has thwarted the Iranian people\u2019s democratic aspirations, namely the corrupt and brutal alliance, tacit or explicit, of Iran\u2019s monarchists and clerics. It clearly needed illuminating, given the mulish reluctance of Western politicians and reporters to shoulder the duties imposed on them by an irredeemably malign global actor,\u201d Ambassador Bloomfields\u2019 foreword reads in part.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mr. Stevenson\u2019s insightful book could be purchased on the Barnes and Noble website at the following link: <\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dictatorship-and-revolution-struan-stevenson\/1143003185\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dictatorship-and-revolution-struan-stevenson\/1143003185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DICTATORSHIP AND REVOLUTION: Iran &#8211; A Contemporary History by Struan Stevenson, Paperback | Barnes &amp; Noble\u00ae (barnesandnoble.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-302569\" title=\"Struan Stevenson book\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fpm9JcZWYAMiGTW-1.jpg\" alt=\"Struan Stevenson book\" width=\"514\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fpm9JcZWYAMiGTW-1.jpg 514w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fpm9JcZWYAMiGTW-1-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fpm9JcZWYAMiGTW-1-150x198.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fpm9JcZWYAMiGTW-1-300x397.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a conference in the United Kingdom&rsquo;s parliament on Wednesday, Mr. Struan Stevenson, a former Member of the European and Scotland&rsquo;s parliaments, revealed his new book, &ldquo;Dictators and Revolution- Iran, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":302570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5499],"tags":[222,5500],"class_list":{"0":"post-302568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"category-fake-opposition","9":"tag-iranian-resistance","10":"tag-fake-opposition"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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