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11 February 2011 Protesters in Tehran, 1979 On this day in 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran to a greeting by several million Iranians after the Shah of Iran left for exile in mid-January 1979. Via Wikipedia: The revolution was populist, nationalist and later Shi’a Islamic. It was in part a conservative […] February 11th, 2011 | Tags: Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian hostage crisis, Islamic socialists, President Jimmy Carter, President Ronald Reagan, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shi'a, Tehran, theocracy, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Category: History, Iran, Islam, Marxism, Middle East, Socialism, United States | Comments are closed
ALI AKBAR DAREINI and JASON KEYSER Associated Press November 14, 2009 EHRAN, Iran (AP) – The showdown between Iran’s clerical leaders and a resilient protest movement sharpened Saturday, as opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah’s regime and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown. Two of Iran’s top pro-reform figures […] November 14th, 2009 | Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Category: Censorship, Internet, Iran | Comments are closed
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