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Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Iran
April 15, 2003
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Jonathan Lyons discusses his book Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran.

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Author: Jonathan Lyons, Geneive Abdo
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (2009)
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