leader of the Freedom Movement of Iran, for either his biography of Mehdi Bazargan, first post-revolution prime minister of Iran, or his history of the student movement in Iran in the 1940s and 1950s—so Yazdi has just gone ahead and posted the books on the web. He wrote the culture minister, “The president has said in his interviews that Iran is the freest country in the world, so it is not clear why a book about the late Mr. Bazargan cannot get a publication license.” Yazdi said he won’t even bother applying for such licenses in the future.
