The speaker describes the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution as a political earthquake that overturned the prior separation of religion and politics and replaced monarchy with an Islamic Republic.
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The speaker describes the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution as a political earthquake that overturned the prior separation of religion and politics and replaced monarchy with an Islamic Republic.
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"...was a general consensus agreement in the Middle East that religion and politics would be separated. But in 1979, the people in Iran... Iran...."
"Iran. a Muslim people, as people who believe in the Islamic religion, the government should be focused on Islamic law, okay? So in a..."
"...community. In fact the nation is a conflation of both religion and politics. Okay and that's why historically and has been the most emotionally..."
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