Children of Paradise (80 page)

of 2013,
462
–63

candidacy in,
131
–32

irregularities in,
409
–14,
422
–23

televised debates for,
355
–60

Elm va Sanat (university),
340

Emami, Saeed (intelligence official implicated in serial killings),
179
–81,
194

Emrooz
(online publication),
254
–55

epistemology,
62
,
113

Eram Garden,
25

Ershad (culture ministry)

Kazemi and,
234

under Khamenei,
111
,
132

publishing licenses from,
130

role in cultural life,
110

Etemad
(newspaper),
241
–42,
250
–51, 274,
376
,
388

Etemad Melli
(newspaper),
311

Etemad Melli (political front),
348
, 464

Eternal Light (Mojahedin-e Khalq operation),
94
–95

Evin Prison

Afshari in,
206
–7

Amirentezam in,
49

bloggers in,
288
–89

description of,
89
–90

Kazemi in,
234
–35

Lajevardi as warden of,
90
–91,
93

lists posted outside,
419

mass executions at,
97

overseen by Ayatollah Montazeri,
93

under shah,
17

trial at,
47
–48

executions

juvenile,
381
,
386
,
390
,
403
, 464

mass graves after,
97
–98

numbers of,
97
,
386
, 464

of political opponents, 1981–1985,
43
–44,
91
–92

of political prisoners,
95
–100

by revolutionary tribunals,
35

under Rouhani, 464

by shah’s regime,
35

See also
firing squad; hangings

existentialism,
14

Fahimi, Parvin (mother of Arabi),
427
–28

Fallaci, Oriana,
37

Fallah (interrogator).
See
Keshavarz

Fallahian, Ali (intelligence minister),
181
,
183

Fanon, Frantz,
13

faqih
(Islamic scholar),
29
–30

Fardid, Ahmad (philosopher),
75
–79,
118

Farmanfarmaian, Abdolaziz (architect),
214
–16

Fars News,
296
,
299
,
303
,
435

Farsi, Jalal al-Din (member of Cultural Revolution institute),
70
,
72
–73

Fath
(newspaper),
375

fatwas

authorizing mass executions,
95
–96,
101

placing regime’s interests above religious injunction,
87
–88

on proof of election fraud,
433

publication of,
27

against Rushdie,
89

Fazlinejad, Payam (
Kayhan
writer)

and bloggers,
257
–58,
260
–64,
279
,
305

Kayhan
treatise of,
435
–39,
445

feminism,
120

Ferdowsi (poet),
135

Feyerabend, Paul,
61

firing squad,
37
,
43
,
97
,
208
,
248
.
See also
executions

flogging,
207
–8,
226
,
264
,
299
,
313
,
398
,
433

foreign ministry,
85
–86,
418

foreign policy

of Ahmadinejad,
344
–45,
357

in election of 2013,
463

hostage crisis and,
40

of Islamic Left,
84

of Rafsanjani,
130
–31

Supreme Leader and,
38
,
345

foreign trade,
86

Forouhar, Dariush (nationalist activist),
169
–70,
178

Foucault, Michel,
118
,
144

Franklin Book Programs,
365
–66,
377

free will,
62
,
66

freedom

of religion,
75

of speech,
36
,
132
,
174
,
178

Freedom Movement of Iran,
31
,
36

French Revolution,
109
,
126

Fukuyama, Francis,
438

funerary rites, Islamic,
20
–21

Ganji, Akbar (activist writer)

on civil disobedience,
323

in culture ministry,
110
–11

early years of,
107
–8

hunger strikes of,
182
,
201
, 322

imprisonment of,
182
,
335

influences on,
324

objection to war policy,
109
–10

on Rafsanjani,
204

Rokhsefat and,
108

Soroush and,
110
–11

support of Mousavi,
447

support of students,
202

writings of,
180
–81, 322

as young militant,
108

García Márquez, Gabriel,
46
,
449

Ghaemi, Hadi (rights researcher),
441

Ghalibaf, Mohammad Bagher (politician),
331

Gholam-Tamimi, Javad (blogger),
278
–79,
288
–90,
300

Ghotbzadeh, Sadegh (foreign minister),
21

Gilani, Mohammad Mohammadi (chief justice),
48
,
362
–63

Gillies, Donald,
62

Gnosticism,
12
,
59

Goftogu
(journal),
120
,
121

Gohardasht Prison,
97

Golestan, Kaveh (photojournalist),
376
–77

Golestan, Lili (gallery owner),
397

governance

city,
223
–24,
230

of
faqih
,
29
–30,
38
–39

Khomeini on,
29
–30,
38
–39

revolutionaries inexperienced in,
87
,
341

government

after election of 1981,
83

Ganji view of,
111
–12

Islamic,
28
–29,
34

under Khamenei,
85
,
87

Khomeini view of,
29
–30,
34
,
38
–39

legal and extralegal aspects of,
37

liberal view of,
75

provisional,
35

Gramsci, Antonio,
138
,
144
,
148

grand ayatollahs,
27
–28.
See also
ayatollahs; clerics

Greek philosophy,
8
,
30

Green Movement,
405
,
408
,
434
,
438
,
446
–47