Marching the people for support of Ayatollah Khomeini

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Thousands of tapes and print copies of Khomeini’s speeches were smuggled back into homeland during the 1970s as an increasing number of unemployed and working-poor persians—mostly new immigrants from the countryside, who were disenchanted by the cultural vacuum of modern urban homeland—turned to the ulama for guidance.

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