Word: fariborz
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...religious leaders' hardening determination to reign-and the spreading uneasiness about this among their erstwhile allies against the Shah-promises trouble. One respected Iranian political analyst, Fariborz Atapour, has forecast that a civil war will begin within two weeks. Writing in the daily Tehran Journal, he complained, "We know that a new constitution is about to be imposed on us, but since we do not know what it contains we cannot contest it. We can merely protest against the undemocratic way that the entire revolutionary aftermath is being handled." Given the theocratic rule now taking shape in Iran, Atapour...
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