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Anjoman

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Anjoman 

a body of local power or of urban or regional self-government in Iran. The first anjoman was formed in Tabriz during the Iranian Revolution of 1905–11. Democratic anjomans also arose between 1918 and 1921 and again in 1945 and 1946, when the democratic movement was experiencing rapid growth.



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75) A broad slice of Iranian society from the elite intellectuals to ordinary villagers formed anjoman to serve as alternative centers of political power.
7) This system included "secret societies, religious brotherhoods, political cliques, coffee and tea house meetings, royal khalvats, ritualistic religious dastes, meetings of extended families, government anjoman, and bureaucratic factions and fraktions.
One such centre, the Anjoman Doostdaran Kindergarten, is a place where around 50 children aged three to 10 gather to receive psychosocial counselling and support.
 
 
 
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