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DANIEL BRUMBERG: Now, in my first afternoon at, in Lebanon, I spent two hours, two and a half hours watching the Shi'ite television station which had a full day's live event from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, or the Iranian Embassy celebrating the 20th anniversary of Khomeini's death and bringing together Shi'ite, Sunnis, Christians of various kinds. It was an extraordinary feat of propaganda. You see on your right a Sunni religious leader in the center, a Christian leader on the left, the Minister of Justice and Administration.
It was really striking listening to this. I was, as I said, mesmerized, because, David , I've listed leaders of the Christian community repeating in atomics to Khomeini, and we -- so this -- here we have this Reformist Movement about to pass about to take over, and that ideology has been long described by the leaders of the Reformist Movement, and it's being expounded here, maybe just strategically, maybe realistamentally , maybe more, and so I just -- I thought that it was a wonderful photo.
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