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    • The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
    • By: Eckart Frahm
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....

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    • The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Epic in scope, tracing seven centuries of conflict between two great powers, historian Adrian Goldsworthy completely reshapes our understanding of one of the greatest rivalries of world history....

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    • The Age of the Great Kings
    • By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled....

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    • How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
    • By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States.

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 654 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • A History, 1720 to the Present
    • By: John Ghazvinian
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 27 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams....

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    • The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
    • By: Andrew Scott Cooper
    • Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late shah's widow, Empress Farah....

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    • A History of the Islamic Republic
    • By: Michael Axworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Axworthy takes listeners through the major periods in Iranian history over the last 30 years: the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one; the Iran-Iraq war; the reconstruction era following the war; the reformist wave led by Mohammed Khatami; and the present day....

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    • Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
    • By: Jay Solomon
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States - in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower....

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    • The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
    • By: David Crist
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 25 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran....

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    • A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
    • By: Jacqueline Saper
    • Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • In a deeply intimate and personal story, Jacqueline Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures....

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    • How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
    • By: Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio
    • Narrated by: Dylan Baker
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 760 ratings
    • Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage....

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    • My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
    • By: Masih Alinejad
    • Narrated by: Linda Henning
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition, and sparking an Online movement against the compulsory hijab....

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    • By: Sepehr Haddad
    • Narrated by: Tim Fearon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A family secret revealed 40 years ago by a grandmother to her grandson is now an acclaimed Russian historical fiction novel. A Hundred Sweet Promises is the tale of the author’s grandfather, Nasrosoltan, a famed composer....

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    • Against the Dramatic Landscape of World-Altering Events, Reza's Heroic Journey Unfolds
    • By: Kristin Orloff
    • Narrated by: David Stifel, Kristin Orloff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A gold medal wrestler, Reza's inspiring life celebrates honor, family and freedom. After he leads bloody battles in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and serves in the Air Force....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Persian Empire and History of Iran, Starting from the Achaemenid Empire, Through the Parthian, Sasanian and Safavid Empire to the Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, David Patton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of Iran, then listen to these five captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Achaemenid Empire, Parthian Empire, Sasanian Empire, The Safavid Empire, and The Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty....

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    • My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
    • By: Jason Rezaian
    • Narrated by: Jason Rezaian
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for 18 months and whose release - which almost didn’t happen - became a part of the Iran nuclear deal....

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    • America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
    • By: Ray Takeyh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne....

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    • The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East
    • By: Afshon Ostovar
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Wars of Ambition, Afshon Ostovar explores the evolution of the metastasizing conflict as it unfolded over a span of more than two decades....

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