"This case study of Iran focuses on those indicators crucial to an understanding of an evolving communication system. These include environmental factors such as population, geography, history, and legal and social systems; data on national development objectives, resources and technologies; communication structures - the press, broadcasting, printing and publishing, film, advertising, telecommunications, theater, tapes and records, libraries and documentation centers, data publication, and storage and retrieval systems; and communication policies for gathering, processing and distributing information. Organized at a time of revolutionary change in Iran, it focuses primarily on the prerevolutionary period and includes only brief references to the major post-revolution developments." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 425)