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Three years have passed since the publication of Iran Revisited, and, in the present study, I retract nothing from my initial thought that members of a community, people, are all responsible for their own welfare as well as the wellbeing of the community. In this context, people are perceived not as a collection of individuals with various interests, but as a collective enterprise intended to co-exist and share common objectives. If I erred, it is due to my conviction that people hold the power to change their circumstances and elevate themselves above an existing condition. Conversely, to refute this belief means to defy a human community and ascertain that men are nothing more than passive and submissive agencies that left the cave and landed on the moon by fortunes and pure coincidences.
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Part of the problem with these sorts of standard categorizations in Iran is due to the fact that terms in use are either misunderstood or incorrectly understood. For instance, a well-known narrative describes that Cossack Brigade marched on Tehran on February 22, 1921 was a coup d’état organized by Cossack commander Reza Khan and his associate Sayyid Zia-ud-Din Tabatabai, who later became Prime Minister for a short period. By definition, however, coup d’état means the overthrow of an existing government, but the King, Ahmed Shah, was left undisturbed on the throne even after February 22, 1921. Only in 1925, the Majlis proclaimed the disposition of the Ahmad Shah, to which he made no attempt to defend his throne and left the country. For details, see Faridul Haq (1968), pp. 4.
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Pirzadeh, A. (2019). Concluding Remarks. In: Modern Iran in Perspective. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25708-8_5
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