Religious backlash loosens clerics' grip on legacy of 1979 Iranian Revolution
- Written by Naser Ghobadzadeh, Senior lecturer, Australian Catholic University
The 1979 Iranian revolution wasn't purely Islamic but the clerics, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, made it so to consolidate their power.BockoPix/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA
This article is part of the Revolutions and Counter Revolutions series, curated by Democracy Futures as a joint global initiative between the Sydney Democracy Network and The Conversation....
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