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    • Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Khamenei
    • By: William R. Polk
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • William R. Polk provides an informative, history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East....

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    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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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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    • 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 661 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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    • 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 215 ratings
    • The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran....

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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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    • By: Pepe Escobar
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Eurasia vs. NATOstan, Pepe Escobar takes us on a whirlwind journey through the swirling sands of the 21st century's defining clash. From the ...

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    • By: Ronen Bergman
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In the years since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror has focused on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Coverage of Iran has been devoted almost exclusively to its nuclear ambitions...

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    • By: Robert Spencer
    • Narrated by: Bob Reed
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The author of The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS and The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran returns with the sharp wit and boundless courage needed to expose the oncoming storm from Iran....

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    • Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In this book-the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah, Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal....

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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 214 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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    • A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
    • By: Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh, John Perry
    • Narrated by: Patty Fogarty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 497 ratings
    • In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith - when denying God would have meant freedom....

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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 98 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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    • Special Forces Berlin & Operation Eagle Claw, JTF 1-79
    • By: James Stejskal
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On November 4, 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over sixty hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States.

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    • Historical Fiction: Ancient Iran’s Struggles and Triumphs Under Cyrus the Great and Darius Amid 6th Century BCE Warfare, Politics, and Royal Drama
    • By: Brooks Miller
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • A historical fiction novel set in ancient Iran during the reign of Cyrus the Great and his successor Darius. The Persian Throne unfolds against a ...

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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 43 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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    • 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 272 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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    • 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 762 ratings
    • Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage....

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