You didn’t ask a question.
<span>Reduced influence of religion on the government. The ayatollahs are radical Shia Muslims. They were/are desperate to inflict Shia Islam at every level on their civilians.
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The word prodigious means Immense.
The word desponding means Hopeless.
Declarative sentence. You are declaring them to look at the water.
