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...Shah to briefly flee Iran before being toppled by a CIA-assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally outside the brown brick house where Mossadegh is buried, his grandson-in-law, Dr. Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities like the Kurds, the abolition of censorship and worker control of factories. Says...
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