exile
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And very similarly with Khomeini, because he was in exile he could say anything he wanted, and it was really extreme.
From Salon
You don’t hear it from Reza Pahlavi, exiled son of the last shah and a key opposition figure.
Iranians living in exile said they have had little success calling people inside Iran, but those in the country can occasionally reach out on costly and unstable phone lines.
Germans ignored it out of shame; Jews, living precariously in exile, rejected it as too assimilated and bourgeois.
Adding to the growing momentum, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the deposed shah, had urged Iranians to pour onto the streets at 8 p.m., the start of the Iranian weekend.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
