Revolution Under Attack The Forqan Group of Iran

At the outbreak of the Islamic revolution on 1979, a small religious group called the Forqan emerged. Under the leadership of Akbar Goodarzi, a young religious fanatic, the Forqan looked for support among the younger generation in their fight against the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose new Shi'a doctrine they took as a call to war. While fighting Khomeini, the Forqan also tried to gain supporters and adherents through religious lectures and distribution of religious pamphlets called the Forqan ('the Truth,' 'the right path'), the way of the Quran. After a series of successful assassinations of Khomeini's supporters, the regime fought back against the Forqan and defeated the group. The question remains whether foreign intelligences agencies, such as the Mossad, the CIA, and the remnants of the SAVAK supported the Forqan's actions. This book provides an in-depth look at what really happened behind the fog of revolution.

Dr. Ronen A. Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science and a senior researcher at The Middle East Research Center at the Ariel University, Israel. Dr. Cohen has published several books: The Rise and Fall of the Mojahedin Khalq, 1987–1997: Their Survival after the Islamic Revolution and Resistance to the Islamic Republic of Iran ( 2009); Modern Persian, A Textbook ( 2009); The Hojjatiyeh Society in Iran: Ideology and Practice from the 1950s to the Present (2013); and The Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution (2014).

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations 
1. Theological Approaches
2. The Emergence of the Forqan Group
3. The Fundamental Ideology of the Forqan
4. Acts of Terror and Assassination – The Trojan Horse Inside the Islamic Revolution 
5. The CIA, SAVAK and Mossad Connections with the Forqan
6. The Termination of the Forqan Group
7. 'SATJA' – Sazman-e Enqelabi-e Todehay-e Jomhory-e Islami-e Iran – The People's Revolutionary Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index