Andreas, I've begun Robin Wright's In the Name of God, the Khomeini Decade, and she doesn't spend much time on the Shah or the CIA. And Wright cannot be considered as being someone on the Right or a Neocon. By the way, I didn't find anything in Ilan Berman's Tehran Rising that I could see as a Neocon argument. Where did you hear that Berman was a Neocon? I couldn't tell what he was. Lawrence