In Unveiled Threat: A Personal Experience of Fundamentalist Islam and the Roots of Terrorism, Janet Tavakoli provides us with an important glimpse into Iran during the revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power
Married, at the time, to an Iranian, and living in Iran as Khomeini seized control of the country, her story begins with the Shah in power and proceeds through the period of revolution in the country that led to Khomeini era.
Her personal experiences in the country interspersed with broader context, both of which are part of the book, provide a much richer understanding as to what went on in Iran during the Khomeini's rule than was ever provided by mainstream US media's intense but superficial focus on Iran during the hostage crisis.
She really did experience the revolution first hand:
A young man shoved me back into the garden and shouted:"Lady, they are going to shoot you;they think you are a student."
