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Re: The Persian Puzzle
by Oscar
"Try making sense of that. " I don't see the contradiction between: " industries were thus wiped out by foreign competition, impoverishing Persia's middle class" and "rising middle class [...] who were being penalized for the government's financial mistakes" The 'impoverishment' in the first quote was the penalty of the second, no?
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