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Article: After the revolution is before the revolution.
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- Journal of International Affairs
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- March 22, 2007
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Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter? Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2006), 268 pages.
Of the three principal values which the Iranian Revolution claimed to embody--nationalism, social justice and Islam--it is social justice that has been least actualized in the Islamic Republic (although pious Muslims might argue that this should indeed be said of Islam).
Not few academic studies of the revolution have elucidated how Ayatollah Khomeini and his supporting faction successfully marginalized, and largely eliminated, rival social movements that had been instrumental in the revolution's ...