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...clear whether he was in attendance. The crowd began chanting, "Neda is not dead; the regime is dead," and "Death to the dictators!" One witness said rocks were thrown by protesters as they defied orders by the security forces to disperse. Several were arrested, including the political activists Saeed Shariati and Shayesteh Amiri and filmmaker Jafar Panahi, according to news reports and opposition websites, although this could not be independently confirmed. Meanwhile, Basij agents were seen videotaping the crowds. Many feared the recordings would be used to identify and arrest protesters. (See TIME's video of Iranian protests in Paris...
...social equality. One who believes that humans are brothers also must believe that humans are worthy of the same treatment. “Legal, class, social, political, racial, national, territorial, genetic or even economic contradictions” are not accepted by tawhid, says the 20th century Muslim philosopher Ali Shariati, “for it [tawhid] implies a mode of looking upon all being as a unity.” Thus, the killers were acting contrary to the spirit of tawhid by killing a man on the basis of his race and nationality...
...Iran is to negotiate the treacherous road from theocracy to democracy, reformers must find a way to speak to the Internet generation as well as to older Iranians. That realization is what had Reza Khatami dashing along Tehran's clogged streets to meet the voters. At Tehran's Shariati Cultural Center, singing and clapping students cheered when he declared, "With the support of the youth, we shall all build the future of this country!" An hour's drive away at the mosque in Shahr-ray, he addressed a subdued throng of working-class men, reassuring them that the reform movement...
...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 "strangers." Khomeini has never claimed that his son was murdered, but throughout Iran it was widely assumed that SAVAK was responsible. On the occasion of his son's death, the Ayatullah wrote a letter to the Iranian people that is now regarded as the crucial document of the revolution. After denouncing the "absurdities...
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