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From documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis:
"When
you bring God into politics very strange things happen. You can see
this now in both America and Iran—in their elections and also in the
growing confrontation between them. But it wasn't always like this—in
fact for most of the 20th century fundamentalist religion in both
America and Iran had turned it's back on the world of politics's and
power.
"But
in the 1970s everything changed. For that was the moment when religion
was deliberately brought into politics in both countries with the aim
of using it as a revolutionary force. And those who did this—Khomeini in
Iran, and right-wing activists in America—were inspired by
revolutionary theories and organizations of the left and their ambition
to transform society in a radical way.
"I
want to tell the forgotten story of how this happened—and how in the
1980s both the Americans and the Iranian idealists came together in a
very odd way—with disastrous consequences."
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