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The logo of Solidarity in Poland is now known all over the world. It is made up silhouettes of people marching in demonstration, whose body contours spell out "Solidarnosc". The Ministry of Islamic Guidance in Iran came up with a poster based on the same principal: a graphic depiction of a crowd of demonstrators with upraised fists which spell out the Islamic profession of faith, "There is no god but God"..

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Stirring a nation
Symbols of the 1979 revolution
September 3, 2001
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From Staging a Revolution : The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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