Ayatollah Khomeini returns to homeland

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The clerical class had been on the defensive ever since the 1920s when the secular, anti-clerical modernizer Reza Shah Pahlavi rose to power. Reza’s son Mohammad Reza Shah, instituted a “White Revolution”, which was a further challenge to the Ulama.

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