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There comes a moment for every rookie researcher when, having come across new & unexpected evidence in the archives, promptly falls out of his/her chair. That moment for me came early in the work, with the story of "Freedom," of Azadi.
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@Swarthy_Bastard Through the metaphor of birds the 1979 Farsi primer presents the importance of freedom & independence in a simple & accessible way for 1st Graders. If captured, birds, like humans, "do everything possible to be free again. They like freedom. Humans also like to live free."
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@Swarthy_Bastard The story of freedom, however, takes a wild turn in 1982, as Iran's former revolutionaries realized that they must now deal with matters of state and governability. Freedom, it turns out, had limits.
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