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Focuses on social and socio-political changes in the city of Tehran, Iran. Description of the acts of defiance in drinking alcoholic beverages and in wearing Western garb; Information about the reduction of checkpoints by the Komiteh religious patrol; Description of the transition for Iran's 13-year-old Islamic revolution; Comment on Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's efforts to move on the economy, privatization, and foreign policy.

Focuses on the Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists' seizure of the American embassy during the Islamic revolution in Iran, under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Factors that contributed to the collapse of the government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi; Visibility of radical Islamic fundamentalism in Iran; Use of nationalist and Islamic symbolism to counter the influence of Khomeini in Iran.

Comments on the Islamic revolution in Iran under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Views on the exile of the shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi; Reason for considering hostage-taking a revolution; U.S. President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy towards the incident in Iran.