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In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond and author Fred A. Reed returned to Iran after a two-year absence. This is their report: Iran's once lively press had been all but silenced, the country's most outspoken journalists imprisoned, and, argues Mohsen Kadivar, one of the regime's sharpest critics, the shah's crown has now merely been replaced by the mullah's turban. President Khatami's Reform movement had failed to improve the people's livelihood. Worse, it would not, or could not, defend its strongest supporters against assaults by those determined to stop a democratic restructuring of the modern world's first religious state.
In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond and author Fred A. Reed returned to Iran after a two-year absence. This is their report: Iran's once lively press had been all but silenced, the country's most outspoken journalists imprisoned, and, argues Mohsen Kadivar, one of the regime's sharpest critics, the shah's crown has now merely been replaced by the mullah's turban. President Khatami's Reform movement had failed to improve the people's livelihood. Worse, it would not, or could not, defend its strongest supporters against assaults by those determined to stop a democratic restructuring of the modern world's first religious state.
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