From late 1978 to February 1979, the Italian media were particularly interested in the Islamic Revolution in Iran. These events and the anomalous Islamist-led rebellion above all surprised the Italian party newspapers and journals: if Communists were pleased to see a revolution against the Shah, Italian Christian-Democrats were deeply worried about the overthrow of the major US Middle East ally against the Soviets; in the middle, Socialists were both attracted and suspicious about the outcome of the revolution. In this paper, several articles from Italian party-owned newspapers will be analysed, in order to show the different views on the Islamic revolution.
L’ITALIA E LA RIVOLUZIONE IRANIANA DEL 1979: PERCEZIONI DI PARTITO / Castelli, Emanuele. - In: STORIA E POLITICA. - ISSN 2036-3907. - 2:2(2010), pp. 369-393. [10.4406/storiaepolitica20100206]
L’ITALIA E LA RIVOLUZIONE IRANIANA DEL 1979: PERCEZIONI DI PARTITO
CASTELLI, Emanuele
2010-01-01
Abstract
From late 1978 to February 1979, the Italian media were particularly interested in the Islamic Revolution in Iran. These events and the anomalous Islamist-led rebellion above all surprised the Italian party newspapers and journals: if Communists were pleased to see a revolution against the Shah, Italian Christian-Democrats were deeply worried about the overthrow of the major US Middle East ally against the Soviets; in the middle, Socialists were both attracted and suspicious about the outcome of the revolution. In this paper, several articles from Italian party-owned newspapers will be analysed, in order to show the different views on the Islamic revolution.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
