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Iran, 1979-1997: Islamic Republic, War, and Thermidor

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The Iranian Revolution Is a Bombshell in the Geopolitical Context of the Middle East

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The hostage crisis in the revolution were also of course a bombshell in the geopolitical context for the entire middle east. When obviously komani really returns to iran emerges as this undisputed leader of the revolution he obviously had his vision clearly exceeds the territorial borders of iran. There's very much an idea that this revolution is universal actually and it's something which ought to be exported among non non-chias and non-muslims no yes i mean especially you could say not you could muslims but more broadly obviously appealing to maybe the third world. They are very much tapping into certain strains of third worldism maybe or maybe less so but that's very much in the atmosphere for

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