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The Dig: Iran, 1979-1997. Islamic Republic, War, and Thermidor

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Iranian Domestic Politics and the Hostage Crisis in Iran

Komani is very much aspiring for leadership of the sort of broader islamic world and this obviously like all revolutions i mean i could look at the french revolution the russian revolution by their very nature they start actually cooling into question the norms and principles which underwrite the international order. He also sees it as an opportunity to renegotiate the alga is accord of 1975 which the shah had really kind of in many ways outmaneuver him.

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