Let Us Water the Flowers: The Memoir of a Political Prisoner in Iran

This book is must reading for Americans trying to understand the complexities of Iranian politics and the nature of the current regime, many of whose leaders were involved in the systematic execution of political prisonersin the 1980s. According to Amnesty International, the cumulative death toll of this mass purging of political enemies, which continued to early 1989, ranges from 4,500 to 10,000.The author experienced the terrible ordeal of being a political prisoner in Iran between 1984 a...