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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

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Ayatollah Imam Khomeini, Imam of Iran

Ayatollah Khomeini was born in 1900. He became a mola of a lower rank, went to the traditional madreces and had a very complex Islamic education. In the 1960s he became a voice of opposition against the Shah's modernization policies. The land distribution that took place in the early 60s removed or weakened greatly that class of landowners from the 19th century.

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