Teheran, Apokalypse

The historical novel "Tehran, Apocalypse" by Amir Hassan Cheheltan describes in six episodes important happenings and events of contemporary Iranian history. The novel begins with the murder of Robert Whitney Imbrie, Vice Consul at the American Embassy and agent of the Sinclair Oil Company, on a hot summer's day in 1924. A group of ordinary people in the alleys and bazaars are suspected of being the instigators when Reza Shah ( founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the father of the Shah of Iran) takes office. The story ends in the hot summer of 1988 with the execution of one of the novel's main characters in this massacre. However, "Tehran, Apocalypse" can be seen not only as a historical, but also as a socio-critical novel that describes the history, traditional culture and superstitions of the people, involving the reader in the political movements of Iran in the last hundred years . The book "Tehran, Apocalypse" is the second volume of the Tehran trilogy by Amir Hassan Cheheltan, which was not previously allowed to be published due to censorship in Iran.