Word: revolutionize
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Of all the things that have changed in China over the past 30 years, transportation has undergone one of the most obvious of transformations. Where city streets once swarmed with bicycles, they are now full of automobiles. Cars clog intersection and expressways. Their exhaust clouds the sky and the air...
"It was the beginning of the second stage of our revolution. It was after this that we rediscovered our true Islamic identity." -Defending the 1979 seizure of U.S. hostages at the American embassy in Tehran. (New York Times, Oct. 9, 1981)
TIME: You were part of the revolution. How do you think the country has developed since then, and how would Imam Khomeini [the founder of the revolution] see all these developments? Mousavi: Imam Khomeini always welcomed change. He usually accepted changes and then tried to manage them.
Have the developments in this country surprised you, and are they what you expected at the time of the revolution? These are both fundamental internal and international changes. But because some of these changes were repressed, they have now appeared somewhat suddenly.
Four years from now, if you're elected President, what do you want people to say about Mousavi? What do you want to have as a legacy? I was a villager. When the revolution happened, it pulled me forward, and now too people don't see me as separate from...