Lior B. Sternfeld

During my undergrad in Middle East studies at Ben Gurion University in Israel, I took a course on Iran, to make sense of Ahmadinejad’s chaotic presidency. I considered myself an informed citizen, yet when I read this book in one sitting, I learned for the first time about the Anglo-American coup against Mosaddeq and Iran’s democracy. I thought that this historic episode should become better publicly known. It also got me thinking: What else don't I know? So I became a historian of modern Iran.