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His relevance had been waning until October, 1977, when his son Mostafa suddenly died. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Khomeini's relevance had been waning until October 1977 when his son Mostafa suddenly died

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8 months ago
The causes were likely natural, Anderson suggests, but Iranians blamed SAVAK. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The causes of Mostafa's death were likely natural but Iranians blamed SAVAK

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8 months ago
Khomeini sought to replace the monarchy with a religious state ruled by an Islamic jurist. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics , Religion

Simplified: Khomeini sought to replace the monarchy with a religious state ruled by an Islamic jurist.

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8 months ago
“For fifteen years everything I picked up turned to gold,” he reflected. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The Shah reflected that for fifteen years everything he picked up turned to gold

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8 months ago
“Now every time I pick up gold it turns to shit.” 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Now every time the Shah picks up gold it turns to shit

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8 months ago
“I cannot but approve of your revolution,” he said. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The Shah said he cannot but approve of your revolution

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8 months ago
It was an awkward attempt to co-opt the uprising, and it failed pitifully. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The Shah's attempt to co-opt the uprising failed pitifully

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8 months ago
Afterward, the U.S. Ambassador to Iran finally broached the topic of the Shah’s potential downfall in a long telegram titled “Thinking the Unthinkable.” 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The U.S. Ambassador to Iran broached the topic of the Shah’s potential downfall in a long telegram titled “Thinking the Unthinkable”

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8 months ago
“There is no other head of state with whom I feel on friendlier terms,” Carter said. 0.950

👤 Jimmy Carter 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Carter said there is no other head of state with whom he feels on friendlier terms

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8 months ago
Preference falsification explains how a revolution could be both inevitable and unforeseeable. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Preference falsification explains how a revolution could be both inevitable and unforeseeable

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8 months ago
Subterranean pressures mount, unnoticed, until they erupt. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Subterranean pressures mount unnoticed until they erupt

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8 months ago
He appointed a new Prime Minister, placed him in charge, and took off for Egypt on January 16, 1979. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: The Shah appointed a new Prime Minister placed him in charge and took off for Egypt on January 16 1979.

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8 months ago
Universities were closed, for years. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Education

Simplified: Universities were closed for years.

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8 months ago
Khomeini, meeting with state-radio employees, insisted that there was “no difference between music and opium” and demanded that they “eliminate music completely” 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics , Religion

Simplified: Khomeini insisted there was no difference between music and opium and demanded they eliminate music completely when meeting with state-radio employees...

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8 months ago
If it hadn’t been Etalaat’s editorial, some other jostle would have released that stored political energy. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: If it hadn’t been Etalaat’s editorial some other jostle would have released that stored political energy

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8 months ago
The fact that the Revolution was unexpected—even by the revolutionaries themselves—doesn’t mean it was contingent. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The fact that the Revolution was unexpected doesn’t mean it was contingent

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8 months ago
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned the “abominable festival,” saying that to attend would be “to participate in the murder of the oppressed people of Iran.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned the abominable festival saying to attend would be to participate in the murder of the oppressed people of Iran

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8 months ago
The conservative writer Niall Ferguson credits his decision to become a historian to reading Tolstoy’s epilogue. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Literature

Simplified: Niall Ferguson credits his decision to become a historian to reading Tolstoy’s epilogue

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8 months ago
Gary Sick, who oversaw Iranian affairs at the National Security Council under Carter, sees it similarly. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Gary Sick sees it similarly

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8 months ago
Carter took five months to select an Ambassador to Iran and another two to get him confirmed. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Carter took five months to select an Ambassador to Iran and another two to get him confirmed

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8 months ago