The Persian Complex: A Centuries-old Quest for Respect: Political, Cultural, and Religious Antecedents of The Iranian Worldview
Published Date: December 1, 2008
CNA convened several of the country’s leading experts on Persian history and contemporary Iran for a workshop to examine some of the factors shaping Iranians’ view of themselves and of the West. In Iran, the past is very much present—tangibly, in the pre-Islamic and Islamic monuments, which are among the world’s cultural treasures, and metaphorically, in the collective consciousness.
