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Four Days in August

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Iran's Clergy

Roya Hakakian: The 1953 coup was invoked as justification for seizing the American Embassy. She says that narrative lets one group off the hook way too easily. Iran's clergy has been conspiring behind the scenes to oppose democracy in Iran, she says. In the United States, U.S.-Iran relations begin and end with the hostage crisis.

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