1.0 link 236512 <![CDATA[Hey DJ Rafsanjani, Play Us Some Ayatollah Khomeini]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melody-moezzi/hey-dj-rafsanjani-play-us_b_236512.html At the heart of Iran's Islamic Revolution was a stencil duplicator and a tape recorder. These were the Ayatollah Khomeini's Facebook and Twitter. He used them to get his sermons into Iran when he was in exile in Iraq and France.

Khomeini's mimeographed and tape-recorded messages made their way to Iran through his devoted followers who willingly broke the law to assist in his attempts to communicate with the Iranian people. These tapes and pamphlets were secretly distributed throughout the...

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