DURING a trip to Iran about 11 years ago, Iranian activists, academics and lawyers I met who had turned against the Islamic revolution said they overthrew the Shah in order to have a modern, prosperous democratic country like Malaysia.
Instead, they had replaced one dictatorship with an even worse one that hides behind God’s name to justify its oppression of its own citizens.
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