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In Iran, does history repeat itself?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33172points) January 3rd, 2016

I was struck by the parallels between the Iranian ‘militants’ who torched the Saudi embassy in Teheran yesterday and the Iran ‘revolutionaries’ who took over the US embassy in Teheran in in 1979.

I guess that the tactic was so successful for them 36 years ago that it it was worth repeating. (sarcasm)

Did the Saudi beheading of a Shiite cleric accomplish anything?

Does this type of counter-response accomplish anything?

Or is this just primitive tribalism repeating itself in the 21st century?

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