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Word: nasseri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, there were catcalls and jeers as the argument raged on. "Is this the end of the revolution?" asked Amin Nasseri, an opponent of the bill. "Don't we say there is no difference between Carter and Reagan?" Hassan Ayat, an Islamic fundamentalist, raised a flurry of detailed questions in objecting to the pending agreement. The tart-tongued speaker, Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, asked anyone who agreed with Ayat to stand up. No one did. Scoffed one supporter of the legislation: "This Mr. Ayat thinks he is the scholar of all the parliaments in the world. The things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostage Breakthrough | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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