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The Green Movement in Iran. By Hamid Dabashi. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2011. 174 pp. $34.95.
On June 12, 2009, Iranians went to the polls to choose a president from among a handful of candidates approved by clerics who are not elected but rather appointed. As voters moved to toss out incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinej ad, the government intervened to award the unpopular president a second term. The blatant fraud proved too much for ordinary Iranians who poured into the streets in a protest that rocked the Islamic Republic to its core. From this outrage was born the so-called "Green Movement," an amorphous group with nearly as many...