The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in the Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever
In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-affected was the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The existence of a new regime in Tehran led to increasingly vitriolic confrontations between these two states, often manifesting themselves in the conflicts across the region, such as tho…