Word: shayegan
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...optimism in Iran last weekend. Now that the country's cry for the Ayatullah's return has been answered, Iranians will surely insist that the revolution live up to its democratic aims. "Democracy is a very difficult thing for a country that does not have a democratic tradition," Daryush Shayegan, a noted Islamic philosopher in Tehran, told TIME Correspondent David Jackson last week. "But Iranians are ready to learn it. Khomeini is an Islamic Gandhi. He is at the axis of our movement, and his greatest achievement will have been to have overthrown the regime. But there must...
...Ahmad Shayegan, a graduate at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, said yesterday that the details had not yet been worked out, but that he hoped students would walk out on Commencement exercises in protest...
...Shayegan said he knows of no Iranian student organization-- in Iran or outside--which favors the Shah's regime. Shayegan said that the United States and the Soviet Union are making "another Vietnam" out of Iran by pouring in millions of dollars worth of weapons...
When the Shah arrived in New York Monday, 200 students demonstrated against him outside the Waldorf-Astoria. Shayegan said he did not know how many demonstrators there would be today...
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