The classic course of revolution
You might refer your students to patterns like this one from France, Russia, and China.
Iranian Targeted by Onetime AssociatesIn the early days of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Saeed Hajjarian advised the hostage-takers at the U.S. Embassy. During the Iran-Iraq war, he helped establish the much-feared Ministry of Intelligence. Then he turned in a democratic direction, running reformist newspapers and serving as a political adviser to President Mohammad Khatami...
"He is a great symbol of what the Islamic republic does to its own," said Farideh Farhi, an Iran specialist at the University of Hawaii who first met Hajjarian in the 1990s...
Labels: history, Iran, politics
posted by Ken Wedding @ 6:45 AM
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