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Title: Social - political analysis of Iran
Review: I read this book with more than passing interest. I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran, 1970-72. There is one reference to the Peace Corps on page 357. However, the index makes no mention of the Peace Corps. The bibliography is extensive; however, those books by American Peace Corps authors that served in Iran during the time that the Peace Corps was active in Iran, 1962-1976, are excluded, viz., Stephen Grummon, Michael Hillmann, Eric Hooglund, John Limbert, John Lorenz and Thomas Ricks. All of these books were authored during the last twenty years. Each of these authors had a unique cross cultural experience that resulted in their expressed opinons having a great deal of credence. It is a pity that in her twenty years of visiting Iran, Ms. Sciolino has not visited some of the towns and villages where Peace Corps Volunteers lived, e.g., Ahar, Aliabad, Boojnoord, Khoy, Tayebad, or Zabol.
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