IranIt is quite possible that before too long the Iranian people will chase the Pahlavi dictator and his associates from power So wrote historian Fred Halliday in the conclusion to this prescient work on Iran in the twentieth century. Just months later, the revolution of 1979 saw Shah Reza Pahlavi ousted and an Islamic theocracy established under Ayatollah Khomeini. Following a contextual study of the origins of the Iranian state, Halliday focuses on the