In 1953, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi-the Shah of Iran- rose to absolute power in a CIA-assisted coup d'?tat dubbed Operation Ajax. As Iranian citizens began to learn of their gov- ernment's involvement in the coup, ordinary people-scholars, lawyers, students, military personnel-began to disappear. Drawing on the political and geographic history of Iran beforethe 1979 Revolution, this memoir of a political prisoner of the Shah's regime recounts a soldier's brutal arrest, imprisonment, interrogation and torture by state security over 50 days in 1969 and 1970.
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