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| | Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | During World War II, the Tehran conference of 1943 stressed the independence of Iran, but the latter's refusal to provide Moscow with oil concessions it had asked for, prompted the Soviets after the war to set up two 'people's' republics in Iranian Azerbaijan in the Kurdish Mahabad style. |
 | | The Iranians, through the first Khomeini uprising of 1963 and then later via the Islamic Revolution of 1979, replied to the US, followed by the captivity of US Embassy workers in Tehran, which was an unprecedented and harsh endeavor that trampled all diplomatic norms and traditions. |
 | | In its turn, there was a wave of protest that came with Khatami, in which intellectuals, students and some middle-class symbols were imprisoned, exiled or intimidated after Bush announced his support of it. |
| english.daralhayat.com /opinion/OPED/04-2006/Article-20060421-bbe179d9-c0a8-10ed-01d1-b9b74e8a5958/story.html (2856 words) |
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