What The Bleep Do We Know About Iran? New Book Says, "Not Much"

Online, December 14, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Historian, Tomas B. Phillips spent the last six years pouring over the details of modern Iranian history. With the patience and dedication of an archaeologist, he meticulously sifted through thousands of pages of periodicals, oral histories, formerly classified government documents, and countless other works. In the course of that excavation, he unearthed startling details which will forever change your impressions of Iran, the Middle East and the monumental movements which altered the course of human history during the last century.

It is said that there are three levels of knowledge: the things we know, the things we don't know, and the things we don't know we don't know. This compelling story of the epic journey of the Iranian people, from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, makes its home among the things you never knew, you never knew.

What began as a purely personal odyssey to improve one man's understanding of this beautiful, ancient culture has become an exhaustive study on the history of modern Iran. Your perceptions of the world of yesterday and today will never be the same.

- Was Reza Shah a tyrannical dictator or idealistic liberal?
- Was Mohammed Mossadegh a "democratically-elected" liberal leader or self-aggrandizing demagogue?
- What was Operation AJAX?
- What are the roots of the Iranian Revolution?
- What are the roots of Iran's nuclear programme?

Millions have been ill served by an army of ideologically driven scholars, theologians, journalists and political demagogues more interested in furthering a political agenda than truly informing the people of the facts as they are. The result has been a generational quest for vengeance to redress wrongs which may never have happened.

Peace begins with understanding and understanding begins only when we subject our most cherished beliefs to honest scrutiny. Queer Sinister Things: The Hidden History of Iran opens the door to understanding by illuminating the often circuitous paths which connect cause and effect.

Notes Tomas, "Whatever wrongs may have been visited upon us by others cannot be assuaged by cloaking ourselves in the veil of 'victim' and casting our perceived assailants as handmaidens of Satan. The errors of the past, if pillared on the lies of the present, only become the misery of future generations who will forever pay the price of a history that never was."