We look at the period between Khomeini’s return and the seizure of the US embassy, focused mostly on the ways in which the very broad and unwieldy revolutionary coalition began to fall apart as most of its elements figured out they’d been played by Khomeini. We culminate with the writing of the 1979 Iranian constitution, a process marked by the secular …
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