Structurally, it's a bit uneven: divided into thirds, the bulkier first two parts of which contextualize the Shah's regime and document the various acts of cruelty performed by the Savak (the Shah's secret police) as recounted by several survivors; then the final third which provides helter-skelter observations of the Iranian Revolution and its aftermath. Otherwise a solid translation, rich with an outsider's observations of one cruel system upended by another.