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January 3, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/international/middleeast/17IRAN.html

Political Fervor of Iranian Clerics Begins to Ebb

(New York Times) Nazila Fathi - While recent pro-democracy demonstrations on Iranian campuses have attracted widespread attention, a potentially more explosive movement has quietly been taking shape in Qum, the intellectual birthplace of the Islamic revolution that swept the Ayatollah Khomeini to power in 1979. The Shiite clergy who a generation ago called for the establishment of a fundamentalist, religious government are having second thoughts. Religion, many are now saying, belongs in the mosque.

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