Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks to communications satellites, the "global village" is no longer a figure of speech. Yet the "comsat" revolution has barely begun. In a few decades it will have solved traffic congestion and rotting cities by making possible a world in which people can live anywhere they please, doing 90% of...
A portrait of the Islamic mystic at the center of the revolution
The Cabinet's pilgrimage was further proof, if any were needed, that the real seat of power in Iran is not in Tehran but at an Islamic academy called the Madresseh Faizieh in the holy city of Qum. There the berobed Ayatullah Khomeini, now 79, receives a steady stream...
In May 1977 a distinguished Islamic teacher from Mashad, Dr. Ali Shariati, died mysteriously in London. His students in Tehran assumed that Shariati had been murdered by SAVAK. Six months later Khomeini's son Mostafa, 49, died suddenly in Najaf a day after he had been visited by two...
Events in Iran now moved even more quickly than the Ayatullah himself could have expected. Within four months of his arrival in France, Khomeini was able to make his triumphant return to Iran, where he quickly replaced the post-Shah government with a Cabinet of his own. A month later...