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confessions
referenda,
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reformists
Ahmadinejad and,
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blamed for Kahrizak detentions,
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as CIA spy network,
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in election of 1997,
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in election of 2000,
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in election of 2003,
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in election of 2004,
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in election of 2005,
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in election of 2006,
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in election of 2008,
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in election of 2009,
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genesis of,
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inspired by Shariati,
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Islamic Left as genesis for,
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journals of,
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Khatami and,
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mistakes of,
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Mousavi as,
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networks of,
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in parliament,
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political parties of,
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Rafsanjani and,
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reversals of,
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seminar on strategy of,
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in Tehran City Council,
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“velvet coup” plot and,
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viewed as enemies,
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Repenters’ Message
(prison newspaper),
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Repenters’ Society,
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Republic, The
(Plato),
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Republican Manifesto (Ganji), 322
Restless Nature of the Universe, The
(Soroush),
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“Return to Self” (Shariati),
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“Return to Which Self?” (Shariati),
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Revelation of Secrets
(Khomeini),
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revolution, theories of,
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Revolutionary Court
trying Amirentezam,
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“velvet coup” trial in,
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Revolutionary Guard Corps
attacking students,
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in election of 2005,
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in election of 2009,
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Evin prison guards as,
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factions within,
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fighting Mojahedin,
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Khomeini establishing,
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politics and,
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return from war,
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Reyshahri, Mohammad (intelligence minister),
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Rezaie, Mohsen (Revolutionary Guard Corps commander),
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Right to Heresy, The
(Zweig),
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Rokhsefat, Mostafa (publisher),
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Roozonline (website),
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Rorty, Richard,
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Rostami, Hajar (mother of Agha-Soltan),
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Rouhani, Hassan (security council member; president),
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Ruholamini, Mohsen (prisoner),
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Rushdie, Salman,
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Saadat, Aida (activist),
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Saadi (poet),
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Sadr, Shadi (human rights lawyer),
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Sadra, Mulla (philosopher),
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Sahaaleh, Atefah (teenager executed for crimes against chastity),
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Sarkouhi, Faraj (editor),
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SAVAK (shah’s security force),
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Sazegara, Mohsen (reformist technocrat),
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science
Heidegger’s view of,
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history of,
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philosophy of,
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Second of Khordad
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self-blamers, Sufis,
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serial killings,
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chain murders
Setad
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sexual crimes
punishment for,
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women charged with,
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shah
declaring martial law,
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demonstrations against,
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flight from Iran,
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reforms proposed by,
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See also
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza
Shahroudi, Mahoud Hashemi (chief justice)
bloggers and,
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moratorium on stoning and,
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Mortazavi and,
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Solmaz Sharif and,
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Shajarian, Mohammad Reza (singer),
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“Share of Poets: Solitude, Love, and Death, The” (Rafizadeh),
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sharia (Islamic law)
judiciary and,
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penal code and,
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on stoning,
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Shariati, Ali (Islamist ideologue)
as activist for Mossadegh,
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call for uprising,
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clergy and,
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death and funeral preparations,
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denounced for anticlericalism,
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education of,
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Hakimi as literary executor for,
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at Hosseiniyeh Ershad,
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influence of,
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intellectual group inspired by,
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Khamenei and,
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lectures of,
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on limited freedom,
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Marxism and,
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nationalism of,
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prison or post-prison writings of,
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on religion subsuming politics,
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