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Mashhadi Mohammed Nik-Dehghan, 39, lives in Lashkar-Abad, a farming village (150 families, most of them related) 75 miles from Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's family was struggling until the Shah launched his land reform in 1963. The family received 125 acres under a complicated system that bars it from subdividing the land into small, uneconomic plots but provides a good income. Mashhadi Nik-Dehghan's crop of grapes and apples last year earned him $9,000, four times Iran's per capita income. Other programs have provided his town with a paved road, a clinic, a school and self...
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