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LECTURE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New YorkThroughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the Iranian student opposition abroad, developed contending narratives of human rights in Iran. While Iranian students worked with Western human rights organizations to highlight the use of torture against political prisoners in Iran, the Pahlavi state responded by embracing a Third World narrative of […]