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Trump’s Eerie Echoes of the Ayatollah Khomeini
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The crude populism, outlandish pronouncements, and primitive vocabulary have a familiar ring to someone who embraced, then fled, the Iranian revolution.
Roya Hakakian
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Mar. 27 2016
12:15AM EDT
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Roya Hakakian
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