Title: Untethered: The True Children of Cyrus
Author: Brian Alikhani & Rosalyn R. Hafner
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 154125144X
Pages: 201
Genre: Non-Fiction
Reviewed by: Aaron Washington
Hollywood Book Review
Author Interview with Brian Alikhani & Rosalyn R. Hafner
Today we are talking to Brian Alikhani & Rosalyn R. Hafner authors of Untethered: The True Children of Cyrus.
HBR: How long did you take to write this book?
2.5 years
HBR: Do you hold any remorse towards The Islamic Republic of Iran?
Not at all. I hate them and I hate everything they stand for. They’re a rotten bunch of blood thirsty criminals. I felt it was the best time to start writing about the Islamic Republic of Iran. Terrorism is on the rise, and the western world had celebrated the Iranian nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Fundamentalists.
HBR: Did you at any point break down when writing this book?
Yes I did. When I remembered what happened to my country. Writing a book was one of the most gratifying things I have done in my life. To write this book, I had to look inside myself, get into my own emotions and sometimes even into my soul. Even though my goal was to share my experiences with the world, I had to learn so much about myself during the journey. Untethered is a shocking true story of conspiracies that led to the Iranian revolution of 1979. We are still paying for the unintended consequences of President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policies, which created a vacuum of power in the Middle East that could not be trusted.
I want everyone to know how the codes of honor in Iran disappeared. The country transitioned from its Literacy Corps to stoning women to death. I hope 1,000 years from now the human race will know that the Islamic revolution in Iran replaced the truth with deceit. Elegance was exchanged for clumsiness. Contention overrode harmony. The world declined deeply and wrote its darkest pages in history.
HBR: What would you have done differently if the political turmoil caught you in Iran?
I’m not sure how I would have reacted to that situation. One thing is certain. Like millions of other Iranians, I probably would have escaped.
HBR: Do you think that America can change how she treats her immigrants?
Yes. If they applied the existing new rules to me back in 1979, I wouldn’t probably be here. I was called into the immigration office (INS) during Jimmy Carter’s administration right after the hostages. It’s a long story how the INS treated us so I know how those poor immigrants feel about the institutionalized racism in United States.