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Article: Iran's people getting fed up with religious revolution.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 13, 2002
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Byline: Mark Bowden
There is a revolution going on in the world of fundamentalist Islam, and it's not the one you might think.
Over the past two years, like a steady, muffled drumbeat, stories have been seeping out of Iran that its people, two decades removed from the Ayatollah Khomeni, are fed up with mullah rule. Last year, young Iranians erupted in spontaneous pro-American demonstrations at soccer games _ this from the land of "Death to America!" and "Death to the Great Satan!"
The relatively moderate president of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, has proposed legislation that would begin to pry the country out from under the thumb of Islamist ...