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Episode 3

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Last broadcast on Wed, 1 Jul 2009, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4.

Synopsis

John Tusa presents the last of three programmes chronicling the making of modern Iran. The fall of the Shah and the unstoppable rise of Ayatollah Khomeini led to the creation of the world's first Islamic republic. How has the nation adjusted to rule by clerics?

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  1. Wed 1 Jul 2009
    11:00

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