Not everyone in Iran wants a revolution. Many fear that the overthrow of the current government will send the country into civil war and shatter the economy. Fariba Nawa reports that many older Iranians who lived through the 1979 Islamic Revolution still vividly remember the purges and revenge killings that followed.
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