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"For all the gloom of events in Iran today, this is still a time of hope for women, as their campaigning has had a slow but sure effect." To anyone who's followed the recent progress of women's rights activists in Iran, the violent crackdown on pro-Mousavi protesters by the police and Basiji militia is entirely unsurprising. It's surely only the presence of unusually large numbers of internation…