Most Americans meet Iran on the evening news: a map with arrows, a crowd with raised fists, a serious man in a turban. That is a real part of the story. It is a small part.
This book is about the rest. About a country that invented the walled garden and the royal road, that gave the world the word paradise, and whose taxi drivers still recite seven-hundred-year-old poems from memory. About why Iranians are proud, wary, hospitable, and stubborn all at once, and why three thousand years of history still shape what they do today.
Written by an Iranian-American physician for the reader who keeps hearing about Iran and suspects there is a longer story behind it, Understanding Iran is a clear, warm, and honest guide to a country most of us know only through headlines.
Reza Rajebi is an interventional radiologist in Houston and the author of Understanding Iran.
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