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If I recall, the Ayatollah Khomeini was the driving force behind the Iran revolution from the very start, fermenting a protest against the secularization and westernization of Iran even when he was in exile in the early 70s.
No comparison at all to Egypt. There is no such comparable leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, even if one were to believe the hype from the US right that this is somehow a religious extremists, or even al Queda inspired, event rather than a populist movement of students and the working class.
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