Azadeh Moaveni August 14, 2016 Last Updated at 21:30 IST
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THE FALL OF HEAVEN The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran Andrew Scott Cooper Henry Holt & Company 587 pages; $36 The former shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, staked his modernisation project on the secularisation of Iranian life, and the emancipation of traditionally religious women. He urged them to come out from under their veils, attend university and show up as citizens in the public sphere. He passed sweeping secular laws that gave women greater rights in the family, appointed women to high office and encouraged a Western liberality that involved Dior swimsuit shows ...
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