The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge »

Born in Tehran but educated in the West, Hooman Majd is the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ (an Economist and Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2008) and The Ayatollahs' Democracy:
An Iranian Challenge. He lives in New York City.

A New York Times best-selling author offers a personal, candid tour of the political and social landscape in Iran.

Everything is True; Nothing is Permitted 1

Dramatis Personae 2

Act One Everything is True 3

Entracte 19

Act Two Nothing is Permitted 27

Prologue 41

My Name is Green 47

Democracy, Interrupted: It Takes a Thousand and One Villages (and a Mullah or Two) 67

Oh Yeah? Kardeem va Shod! 93

Where I Sat in Babylon 129

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Iran and America in the Age of Obama 161

The Good, the Bad, the Unclean 211

Nothing is True; Everything is Forbidden 255

Acknowledgments 273

Index 275