Mass Media Coverage

Reading Lolita in Tehran

This story replays the life of Iranian native and teacher Nafisi, who organizes a book club where women from various backgrounds come together to read and discuss a variety of books that are increasingly outlawed in Iran due to the influence of the Iran's religious leaders. In addition to giving us a closer connection to the women and their tales than what is shown in other novels, Nafisi uses the tale of her group to demonstrate the influence that books have.
This book provides insight into the type of strict control that the Iranian government has instituted since the Islamic Revolution. The real-world problems discussed by Azar Nafisi in Reading Lolita in Tehran influence how we perceive the established regulations that impose on Nafisi's way of life, as well as the other women and men who surround her. We all experience a significant impact from books as a mass communication medium. A large portion of the past's cultural history is communicated via books and which also aids in self-understanding. They are an important instrument in the process of educating us. The benefits of this work in terms of current Iranian politics are that it gives us insight into how conditions are for the Iranian people.
However the main criticism of Reading Lolita is that it promotes neoconservative foreign policy objectives by discreetly supporting justifications for American intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran by exposing the most blatant violations of power committed by Islamic authorities in Iran, portraying all Iranian women as defenseless and horribly mistreated, as well as praising Western classical literature as a retreat for rational Iranians.

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi has written and released an illustrated memoir about her youth during the Iranian revolution. The revolutionary era, which has become synonymous with Iranian culture for many individuals from outside of Iran, is complicated and compelling by the black-and-white visuals and personal narrative. The book combines the experiences of Strapi's youth with those of her family, and it also gives details of historical and contemporary political and cultural developments in Iran during the time.
The decision to make a graphic novel version of Persepolis was deliberate. Writing a story as an adult while viewing the world through the eyes of a child makes it extremely difficult to express the same emotions in words. A conventional story would have to start with basic vocabulary and grammar and afterward progress as the main protagonist grew older in the plot, this would not have been reasonably consistent and may not have had the intended effect. Furthermore, if she had used adult words, it would have been difficult to comprehend the storyline. Marjane Satrapi believed that the graphic book format enabled her to express both the plot and the emotions. A wider number of individuals, as a result, we're better able to grasp the entirety of the ideas and events. Although the use of visuals reduces the audience that would want to read this book, the images give more background to consider when studying the works and plot of this book. The purpose of the book is to educate those who would be considered outsiders to Iranian culture, politics, and experiences.

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Kinzer's book is considered and reported to offer one of the most accurate depictions of the events that led to the 1953 coup of Iran's prime minister and the establishment of the Shah, who'd been backed by the US. This book provides valuable insights as to how Iran transitioned from a republic with an elected leader to the installation of the Shah's authority and tracks how these events led to the present terrorist organizations and uprising throughout the Middle East as well as in Iran. Compared to past books that were mentioned above, this part book is more history-focused (I will list a free pdf. that I found of this book). 
In his book, Kinzer highlights seven important factors. The first is that, unlike what both the American administration and the former monarchy have said, the 1953 coup was actually an American plan, not a grassroots revolt by the Iranian people to remove the freely chosen prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. Almost all Iranians interested in politics have been aware of the U.S. and Britain's involvement there in the 1953 coup, but both governments worked to keep it secret, as did Islamic extremists, who have also worked to stifle research on the matter. Therefore, it is not surprising that such individuals have criticized Kinzer's work. This book is factual and provides insight to the question of why individuals of Iran are wary of westerners as well as a crucial source of material and comprehension of significant issues which might come in handy for students and scholars who are concerned with U.S. policy towards Iran.

he Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

In order to dispel the notion that the war involving the United States and Iran is a new development, Crist's book starts by pointing out that the two countries were previously partners rather than rivals. Crist sheds light on events including the talks among Iran and the United States after the attacks of September 11 and the choices and actions that led to Iran's ambition to become a nuclear state through government papers and high-level interviews.
Although the book was released in 2013, people still find it relevant because of its understanding of the Iranian military and, most notably, Qasem Soleimani. The fact that Mr. Crist has demonstrated that the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been fighting war for more than three decades cannot be recognized simply because one disagrees with all of Mr. Crist's political opinions. His depiction of this struggle serves as a crucial lesson that America can no longer engage its enemies in a series of wars, such as World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. In 1979, Khomeinism erupted out of Iran and started to threaten American rule in the Middle East since we were still fighting Soviet communism. The threat from Tehran still looms, notwithstanding how fractured the global battleground is today.
This dynamic sometimes detracts from "The Twilight War's" latter chapters. Mr. Crist is compelled to depend excessively heavily on the details given to him by slick-talking but helpless Iranian officials, opportunistic Iranian exiles, and retired American diplomats with a grudge because he lacks the declassified information and numerous sourcing of other chapters. The section on George W. Bush's presidency by Crist misses a portion of the complexity of the earlier parts. Additionally, he occasionally makes odd claims regarding Iranian domestic politics, such as calling Iran's fundamentalist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "urbane" as well as a "political secularist" despite the fact that he Ahmadinejad has rejected both the Holocaust and the existence of homosexual people in Iran.