Word: enghelab
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...moderates fired first with a volley of blistering editorials in Banisadr's daily Enghelab-e-Eslami. Noting that the government had recovered only $2.8 billion of its $12 billion in frozen assets-and not a cent of the Shah's fortune-the paper blamed the original, clerically supported seizure of the hostages for most of the country's appalling problems...
...spare parts and raw materials, basic foodstuffs are scarce, and unemployment is close to 40%. The bazaris, the small businessmen who initially backed the Islamic revolution, have become disillusioned with the mullahs' mismanagement. Says a moderate politician: "Bogus victories fill no stomachs." Moreover, adds the moderates' newspaper, Enghelab-e-Eslami, in a series on Iran's hostage-related losses: "Part of the legacy consists of the arousal of sentiments against Iran and Islam all over the world...
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