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

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The Fadayon Is a New Generation of Revolutionary Fervor

The group that is going to be popularly known as the fadayon they storm a gendarmory post in northern village by the name of siyakad if their effort is a total failure at the level of a sort of military operation they are not successful but it becomes a big kind of public relations triumph for the new generation of revolutionaries. The majority of people who sort of fall into the leftist camps tend to have come from families that were already part of the sort of modernizing middle classes secularist middle classes. All of this could have happened without a revolution right there are content i don't want to think too teleologically from 1970, 70, 70, 1, 72 or

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