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...students who will talk are divided. One faction, though adamantly opposed to the Shah, is equally dismayed about the course of Khomeini's revolution. Said Djabbari, 22, one of the 900 Iranians at the University of Southern California, explained this: "We wanted a democracy, not a theocracy...
...many disillusioned students, revolution has replaced one tyranny with another. A junior at the University of Southern California, Said Djabbari, 21, wanted to go back but now has misgivings. "The previous government wielded an iron fist in a velvet glove," he says. "This new regime doesn't give a damn about the glove." Adds a social science student at the University of Kansas: "The Ayatullah sounds exactly like the Shah. Previously, if I opposed the government, I was opposing the Shah. Now they tell me I'm opposing...
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