The history of the Iranian revolution cannot be fully told without considering student organizing, for as Afshin Matin-Asgari has noted, from the crackdown of 1963 “up to 1977, the student movement in Iran and abroad remained the principal force of the opposition” to the shah's regime.1 Likewise, and as Manijeh Moradian shows in This Flame Within, the story of US campus radicalism, anti-imperialism, and global solidarity demands a thorough accounting for the role of tens of thousands of Iranian students that had attended American universities and colleges in the 1960s and 1970s. Iran topped the list of countries that sent students to the United States in that period, and these young women and men became the nucleus out of which the Iranian diaspora in North America initially emerged. At the height of the Cold War, they were supposed to demonstrate the benefits of colluding with American global hegemony....
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