Nation: Another Ayatullah Is Angry

"People will start to kill each other, "the rival warns

It is said of the Azerbaijanis, the rugged mountain people who flourish in the northwestern tip of Iran, that they are like a camel—hard to rouse and get up onto their feet, but once up, hard to stop. So it is that their opposition to the Ayatullah Khomeini began as a protest, turned into a demonstration, then a revolt, and now a challenge to the theocratic regime that Khomeini has just imposed on the nation.

Azerbaijan may seem a remote corner of the world, but this...

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