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Article: Young Iranians, once avid reformers, leave politics behind.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 14, 2008
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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Tehran, Iran -- Alireza Mahfouzian knows how it feels on the front line of Iran's culture wars. When he graduated from high school, the police shaved off his too-radical long hair. He has been in court 20 times for social infractions and boasts that he knew the courthouse "room by room."
Caught drinking alcohol years ago, he received 75 lashes to his back - all the price, he says, of growing up and testing limits in the Islamic Republic.
But Mr. Mahfouzian is now older and wiser and has come to terms with the restrictions of Iran. Like many here in their late 20s and early 30s who were once foot ...
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