Leea S.’s Reviews > Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East > Status Update
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The relationship between SA and Iran pre-1979 is so interesting—they were better allies then despite Iran’s modernization than after Khomeini came to be Supreme Leader. Of course, it makes sense, given the clash between the two countries thereafter to “be the top” of the Muslim world—Sunni Wahhabism v. Shia fundamentalism, but wow.
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Iranian women “were handed a black shroud in the name of freedom.”
— Jun 28, 2025 09:31AM
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Iranian women “were handed a black shroud in the name of freedom.”
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Leea S.
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They “didn’t see it happening at first. Without their say, their city became a Petri dish for ideological experiments that would one day produce an explosion of hatred on the other side of the world. But they were its first victims.”
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“[T]hey were blinded to the consequences of their creation because they could not recognize the intolerance of their own ideology.”
— Jul 07, 2025 09:53AM
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“[T]hey were blinded to the consequences of their creation because they could not recognize the intolerance of their own ideology.”
