Sometime last year, the United States Institute of Peace kidnapped over 50 Iran experts including Karim Sadjadpour, Juan Cole, Haleh Esfandiari and Abbas Milani and held them in a basement in Bethesda, Maryland until they each wrote five pages on an event or person in modern Iranian history.

Well, that's probably not how it went down, but somehow they managed to get all of those luminaries together to write an incredibly comprehensive guide to Iranian politics and U.S.-Iranian relations. Check it out here.