"Earlier that week, the newspapers had begun announcing the firing-squad
executions of those suspected of sympathizing with leftist groups deemed
counterrevolutionary. Ever since the shah had left and Ayatollah Khomeini
had returned, the various political factions had split and metastasized,
and then fought each other over the revolution's direction; to entrench
their control, the circle around the ayatollah had begun hunting down
members and suspected sympathizers of the groups they sought to sideline.
Each current published its own magazines and books, espousing its
particular definition of revolution, and many Iranians bought them,
amassing small libraries of political texts that cataloged the different
strains of revolution. But when the purges began, being caught in
possession of targeted group's literature was considered a crime, an act of
opposition to the regime. Book owners, and even the families of book
owners, could be sentenced to years in prison." (p 66-7)

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