Touraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Nasser Mohajer is an independent scholar of modern Iranian history. He studied Sociology in the United States and History and Economics in France.Siavush Randjbar-Daemi is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, UK.