Ali Dashti liked to claim, in a somewhat self-deprecating manner, that he was "really only a politician who just happen ed] to have filled some pages with myths and fantasies on the side." He was being too modest since over the years he produced more than twenty unique books and hundreds of articles, op-ed pieces, and essays. Also, as a journalist, he established the newspaper Red Dawn in which he voiced his opinions in a very candid and fearless...