Important books change minds forever, in important ways. And most important books come as surprises; their messages unexpected, the readers almost always drawing lessons from the text and amalgamating them with their own experiences to create new and life-changing insights into reality. The Memoirs of Ardeshir Zahedi is such a book, even though we have seen only the first of four planned volumes in English. It comes at a time when the world needs to understand the importance of Iran -the focus of the book and the land of its author - and therefore to understand the nuance and texture of that state and society at a time when Iran is critical to the future of the Middle East and, in many respects, the East-West strategic balance.
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