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Jennifer Thompson is editor of <em><a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/iranian.studies/comment/">Policy Brief</a></em> at the <a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/iranian.studies/ ">Centre for Iranian Studies<
The western-backed Shah of Iran, who grandly styled himself as the "king of kings", was overthrown by "people power" when millions of Iranians took to the
