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Show 157 two societies. There which importance are of no are several articles included in the Constitution in Iran. Ministers have the National Consultative . them, and right For to be Assembly, example, Article 31 states: present at the Sessions of the to sit in the places appointed for Assembly. If they con ask the President of the Assembly may give such explanations as may discussion and investigation (Article to listen to the debates of the sider it necessary, they may for permission to speak, and be necessary for purposes of 31). The inclusion of unimportant matters and the lack of several important items, which should be (equality disability in any democratic and humanistic constitution for women, the lower-class, of the intellectuals Moreover, even as and the honest leaders disagreed with not enemies. and opposed each As Edward Browne out: Dissension is indeed of the greatest dangers which threatens Persia. With all their individual virtues and talents, the Persians, but for this fatal t.endency to quarrel with one another, and so to play' into the hands of their enemeis, would never as a one nation have fallen Revolution of which we the leaders of the Revolution. other; they consider each other rivals, if (1910a:339) pointed religious minorities) shows have so low as attempted they fell before the to trace, the history. |