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Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution
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Is the Real Power in Iran in Shia Islam?
Reza Oslin: Most popular revolutions on their own fail, right? You need a sub-segment of the elite to truly flip and take over. There's no history in 1400 years of Islamic and Shia thought about direct clerical rule. That just doesn't exist. This was something that Khomeini thought up out of whole cloth. And what people I think don't understand is that it's not a very popular theology in Shiism.
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