His fireside chats were so successful that the term has come to connote all warm, intimate, and informal communications between a leader and citizens.

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After the 1979 Islamic revolution, informal consultation was the norm between the different offices of state, and disputes were settled by the then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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