Little has changed ; LETTERS to the EDITOR

Daily PostJune 24, 2009

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"DEATH to the dictator!" protesters chanted in Tehran on Saturday. The same cry was heard 30 years ago, only for one for m of absolutism to yield to another.

The enthusiasm among the Iranian masses for opposing the Shah was so infectious that few bothered to consider the implications of Ayatollah Khomeini's fundamentalism. He marginalised his secular allies and began to radicalise the revolution, culminating in November, 1979, when clerical students took over the American embassy.

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Little has changed ; LETTERS to the EDITOR

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