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Article: Riding the wave of Islam's past. (Iran is influencing other countries to return to Islamic traditions)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- February 9, 1985
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On Febraury 11, Iran will celebrate the sixth anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Shah. Today many Western commentators view the Islamic Republic of Iran as reactionary, not revolutionary. They argue that revolutions are future-oriented, fired by the vision of a new society. In Iran, however, the clergy who were in the forefront of the anti-Shah movement and who now run the government believe that the Koran and the Sharia (Islamic law) provide the sole blueprint for the ideal society.
Iranian leaders consider the Western analysts' opinions irrelevant.
They are only about how Moslems throughout the world view their regime. They see Iran ...