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As I mentioned earlier ,  Seven Days in May  is a tale of the attempted overthrow of the United States of America. The book has been described as realistic, prophetic, and a page-turning tale of conspiracy at the highest political levels. The story is set to a background conflict occurring between Russia and the United States in... Iran . Both the fictional book (1962) and movie (1964)  Seven Days in May , employing twilight language, utilizes coded messages hidden in conversations about horse race betting and the running of the Preakness. So let's play this out. Now, on the threshold of the Preakness (see here for name game for this moniker), which will run on May 19th, the news is filled with Iran. The map of Iran at Wikipedia. Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran,  is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran," which in Persian means "Land of the Aryans,"  has been in use natively since the Sassanian era. Wikipedia Rick Gladstone at the...

You may vaguely recall Seven Days in May as a tale of the attempted overthrow of the United States of America. The book has been described as realistic, prophetic, and a  page-turning tale of conspiracy at the highest political levels.  What many have forgotten, in the book and movie, intriguingly, is that the story develops due to a background conflict occurring between Russia and the United States in... Iran . Seven Days in May is an American political thriller written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, who both worked at Cowles Communications, publisher of Look Magazine .   Look Magazine , for those who think such a publication was far from the field of intelligence, spying, and agents, are cautioned to remember what was happening in the 1950s and 1960s. It was the reporters and photographers who would be allowed into the hills of Cuba to take pictures of Fidel Castro or who traveled behind the Iron Curtain to interview Communists. Journalism was a cov...