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The Dig: Iran, 1953-1979. From the Shah to Islamic Revolution

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Khomeini's the Leader of the Clerical Classes

There's consolidation among even these opposing clerical factions. Khomeini himself is from from exile. He isn't a position to speak very freely, and to really exhort revolutionaries to further to go back out onto the streets. At one point it actually looks like the moderating factions might have a chance in early in the early part of the summer of 78 Shariat Madari says, Okay, well, we should go,. We should go home... And Khomeini says, No, no, let's keep protesting. But people don't mark the next 40th day. It's through more repression. Eventually, as I said, Black Friday, that even these moderating influences within

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