Prologue: "ten days of dawn" (Daheh-ye Fajr)
The background: Ma chegoneh ma shodim? ("How did we become what we are?")
The 1970s and the slide to revolution
Like the person he ought to be: Islamic republic, 1979-80
Jang-e Tahmili: the imposed war, 1980-88
The end of the war, the death of the emam, and reconstruction: Khamenei and Rafsanjani, 1988-97
Bim-e mowj (Fear of the wave): Khatami and reform, 1997-2005
Everything must change, so that everything can stay the same: Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, 2005-12.