Manshour Varasteh
{{Short description|Academic and political activist}}
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Manshour Varasteh ({{langx|fa|منشور وارسته}}) is an academic author, researcher, and political activist.{{Cite journal|last=Ferrier|first=R. W.|date=October 1992|title=Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Manshour Varasteh (ed.): Iran and the international community. xvi, 191 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. £35.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/anoushiravan-ehteshami-and-manshour-varasteh-ed-iran-and-the-international-community-xvi-191-pp-london-and-new-york-routledge-1991-35/E46BDB929F3F0ABE923F278DB3798F0A|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|language=en|volume=55|issue=3|pages=566–568|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00003918|s2cid=162468436 |issn=1474-0699|url-access=subscription}}{{cite web | title=MANSHOUR VARASTEH | website=Biteback Publishing | url=https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/authors/manshour-varasteh}}{{cite web | title=İran İslam Devrimi 40. yılında: Şah karşıtı solculara ne oldu? | website=BBC | url=https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-dunya-47128818}} He serves as a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, appearing in several of the group's broadcasts.{{cite web | title=گفتگو با منشور وارسته و حسین جهانسوز از اعضای شورای ملی مقاومت ایران | website=youtube.com | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93yFqT-vn1A | access-date=2018-11-25}}{{cite web | title=Simay Azadi TV ایران آزاد – گفتگو با منشور وارسته، عضو شورای ملی مقاومت ایران | website=youtube.com | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4D0OUUlk44 | access-date=2018-11-25}}
Formative years and education
As a political activist during Pahlavi dynasty, he was detained by SAVAK. After release, he began to study the organized anti-shah resistance becoming familiar with Massoud Rajavi's People's Mujahedin of Iran. Until the 1979 Revolution and down fall of Pahlavi dynasty in Iran, he was barred from leaving the country. After the revolution, he was involved in promoting human rights through NGO’s. Due to his activities he was forced to leave Iran in 1981 and has been living in exile ever since.{{better source|date=September 2018}} By 1990, he got his PhD in International Politics from The University of Wales/Aberystwyth.{{cite web | last=Varasteh | first=Manshour | title=Ascent and Descent of Marxist forces in Contemporary Iran. Case Study: People's Fedaii and Tudeh Party | website=Cadair Home | date=2009-10-23 | url=http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/3281 | access-date=2018-03-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322144528/http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/3281 | archive-date=2018-03-22 | url-status=dead }}
Publications
Varasteh has published books in English and Persian which included:
- Iran and International Community.{{cite book | last=Varasteh | first=Manshour | title=Iran and the international community | publisher=Routledge | publication-place=London New York | year=1991 | isbn=978-0-415-04184-3 | page= | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/iraninternationa00aeht }}{{cite journal | title=Vol. 55, No. 3, 1992 of Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on JSTOR | jstor=i225552 }}
- The Mullah's nightmare (in Persian).{{cite web | last=Varasteh | first=Manshour | title=The Mullah's nightmare| publisher=Mixam | publication-place=London| year=2019 | url=https://hambastegimeli.com/%DA%AF%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%A7/78273-%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%82%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87| access-date=2020-09-10}}
- Ascent and Descent of Marxist forces in Contemporary Iran.
- Iran's National Security Doctrine, From Khatami to Ahmadinejad (in Persian).{{cite book | last=Varasteh | first=Manshour | title=Iran's National Security Doctrine, From Khatami to Ahmadinejad| publisher=Rahyar Publishing, Ltd| publication-place=Paris, France | year=2008 | isbn= | page=}}
- Understanding Iran's National Security Doctrine, New Millennium.{{cite book | last=Varasteh | first=Manshour | title=Understanding Iran's national security doctrine : the new millennium | publisher=Troubador Publishing, Ltc | publication-place=Leicestershire, UK | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-78088-557-5 | page=}}{{cite web | last=Varasteh | first=Manshour | title=Understanding Iran's National Security Doctrine | website=Troubador | url=http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=2185 | access-date=2018-03-21}}
- Against all odds (in Persian).{{cite book | last=Varasteh | first=Manshour | title=Against all odds| publisher=Bonyad Rezaiha Association | publication-place=Cergy-Pontoise, France | year=2015 | isbn=978-2-916531-29-8 | page=}}
- Foundation of democracy in free Iran (in Persian).
References
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Category:Iranian political scientists
Category:Iranian expatriates in the United Kingdom