Iran, 1953-1979: From the Shah to Islamic Revolution
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The Origins of the Armed Struggle
Militant opposition groups actually going abroad and some of them would have ghost from subsequent to lebanon. It was both sort of religious nationalists but also those who would go into establish the revolutionary guards um following the revolution so it's kind of like in a sense the lexicon of armed struggle. The gorillas were quite aware that by launching kind of gorilla struggle that the regime would basically respond with dramatic and really kind of severe violence, he says.
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