Death to the Dictator!: A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price - Softcover

Moqadam, Afsaneh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374532958 ISBN 13: 9780374532956

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011

Synopsis

Tehran, June 12, 2009. Mohsen Abbaspour, an ordinary young man in his twenties―not particularly political, or ambitious, or worldly―casts the first vote of his life in Iran's tenth presidential election. Fed up with rising unemployment and inflation, he backs the reformist party and its candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Mohsen believes his vote will count.

It will not. Almost the instant the polls close, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will declare himself president by an overwhelming majority. And as the Western world scrambles to make sense of the brazenly fraudulent election, Mohsen, along with his friends and family and neighbors, will experience a sense of utter desolation, and then something else: an increasingly sharper feeling―the beginning of anger. In a matter of weeks, millions of Iranians will flow into the streets, chanting in protest, "Death to the dictator!" Mohsen Abbaspour will be swept up in an uncontrollable and ultimately devastating chain of events.

Death to the Dictator! stuns readers with its heartbreaking immediacy. Our pseudonymous author was a keen eyewitness in Tehran during the summer of 2009 and beyond. In this brave and true book, we see what we are not supposed to see, and learn what we are not supposed to know.

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About the Author

Afsaneh Moqadam is a pseudonym. It has been adopted to protect the identity of the author, who witnessed and participated in many of the events described in the book Death to the Dictator!

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374532958
• ISBN 13: 9780374532956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160