Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist RevolutionariesOn 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Irans Gilan Province. Barely two months later, the Iranian Peoples Fadai Guerrillas officially announced their existence and began a long, drawn out urban guerrilla war against the Shahs regime. In Call to Arms, Ali Rahnema provides an exhaustive history of the Fadais, beginning by asking why so many of Irans best and brightest chose