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In his ground-breaking 1993 article on "public confession in Iran," Professor Ervand Abrahamian dissected the Stalin-like anatomy of the Iran's political trials, which were repeated in Tehran in the past two weeks: "In a society that attaches importance to personal honor, shame, and martyrdom, these public recantations can utterly devastate the victim's reputation (aberu) - they are tantamount to political suicide."
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