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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Milton Viorst

Titel

The Limits of the Revolution: Changing Iran

Ist Teil von

• Foreign Affairs, 1995

Erscheinungsjahr

1995

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Both in public and underground, Iranians are debating the legitimacy of the Islamic state that Khomeini built. Students challenge the notion that Islam has all the answers but evince pride in an Iran free of the shah and under no foreign master. The religious and secular elites are increasingly willing to contemplate pluralism and openness to the world, though most makers of the revolution remain obdurate and appeal to anti-Americanism to stir up the masses. Washington needs to listen to the new voices of Iran.