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Thanks, my bad. I'm still paywalled, so I went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#Cassette_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#Casse

Thanks, my bad. I'm still paywalled, so I went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#Cassette_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#Cassette_culture where TIL tapes also played a role in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

dylan604 3y ago
The fax machine also played a role in bringing down the Iron Curtain
OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Tapes indeed played a role in the Iranian Revolution, but it was largely a negative one in making Khomeini popular enough that he could return from exile and immediately marginalize the broad coalition that had overthrown the shah. But after 1979, smuggled cassettes also allowed Western-leaning Iranians to maintain contact with the pop culture that they had been cut off from due to the new regime.