Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bazargan has made no secret of his distress over the summary trials and executions of military men and former officials that have been conducted by revolutionary courts independent of the new government. Said Bazargan: "I have nothing to do with these tribunals." So far 160 men have been executed by...
Some of the country's most prestigious leaders have joined the Prime Minister in calling for an end to the revolutionary trials. One of them is Ayatullah Mohammed Khaqani, powerful leader of 3 million Arabic-speaking Iranians in the vital oil province of Khuzistan. Last week Khaqani threatened to...
Technologically, the Vietnam and Mideast wars have shown large and expensive equipment such as aircraft carriers, fighter aircraft, and tanks to be increasingly vulnerable to highly accurate, deadly, and cost-effective precision-guided munitions. Yet the defense budget still shows a greater commitment to these weapons: for example, although Assistant...
Those differences have been building since last year, when huge street rallies organized by Taleghani led to the Shah's abdication and eventually to Khomeini's triumphant return from his exile in Paris. In contrast to the uncompromising Khomeini, Taleghani is, by Iranian standards, a liberal who maintains...
The war's end brought prosperity but not a return to pre-Depression normalcy. News, most of it threatening, came thicker and faster: the cold war, Mao's revolution in China, the Alger Hiss case, Korea. At their 1952 conventions, the first to be covered by TV, both parties were...