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To: combjelly who wrote (495158)	7/14/2009 9:33:36 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576392

The timing was coincidental because tensions have been bubbling there for decades. Many in the Revolution were not interested in clergy rule, they wanted democracy. So when the mullahs took over, they weren't content. So all that was needed was a trigger. In this case, it was a hike in tuition costs. Once the students started protesting, everyone else joined in because of frustrations over the economy, the repression and the control of the mullahs. The uprising in 2003 was very much like this most recent one in the way it started. There was some trigger event that started some widespread protests and they rapidly spread, dragging in many of the same issues. There was an protest in 1999 as well. Not as big as this year's but a protest nonetheless.