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    "Arnold Toynbee",
    "fundamentalism",
    "iran",
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  "textContent": "4,823 words Scott Anderson King of Kings—The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation New York: Doubleday, 2025 The Iran Hostage Crisis in which Iranian students imprisoned the Americans on the staff of the US Embassy for 444 days after its start date of November 4, 1979 was part of the Iranian […]",
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