Ma's regime forced the switch from the old style to the manufacture of Chinese style carpets by the government owned factory.

But now the regime has forced the issue, leaving Iranians who oppose strong-arm tactics and hard-line policies with just two cards in their hands.

The regime forced the churches in East Germany to break outside ties with the West.

In 1936 the fascist regime forced Palermo to change its colours to yellow and red, after the official ones of the local municipality.

In 1926 the fascist regime forced Giannini to close it and emigrate to France.

The Armenian Church of Iraq worked with government officials to regain properties that the former regime forced it to sell.

The regime also forced many students and staff from the entire Frankfurt University, and most fled to America.

For his views, the regime forced him in 1979 to choose between exile and five years in prison.