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• Prompting the walkout is the much anticipated and imminent announcement by the United Nations Tribunal doing the investigating of the killings of official indictments against Hezbollah terror operatives reporting directly to Hezbollah's Secretary General Sheikh Nasrallah -- Hezbollah's mini ayatollah and Iran's puppet agent provocateur. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Firestorm Among Lebanon's Cedars
• Last week, a videodisc began circulating that reportedly shows the president chatting with one of the country's leading clerics, Ayatollah Javadi Amoli. Religion Versus Reality
• The key decider during this period -- as in the October Surprise phase -- was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada. Printing: Iran Divided & the 'October Surprise'
• A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives
• Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, indicated in a speech to Tehran University last Sunday that his country was not eager for an agreement now, in part because America's low status in the Middle East gives Iran an opportunity to achieve its dreams of regional dominance, pointing up "the might and the enduing grandeur of the Islamic System. A Chanukah Miracle?
• In a common fallacy, however, many Sunnis tend to conflate Iraqi Shiite Islamists with the Iranian regime next door, even though the political ideology of Iraqi Shiites does not mesh with Ayatollah Khomeini's vilayet e-fakih (the guardianship of the jurist) and although ever since their return from exile in Iran in 2003, the Shiite Islamists have actively sought to shed whatever Iranian veneer they had acquired. Iraq on the Edge
• Thanks to fiction I can, for example, kill an ayatollah, which is something you cannot do in real life," Nahapetian said at the "Semana Negra" crime-writing festival, attended by a million people every year in Gijon, northern Spain. Reuters: Top News
• The key decider during this period - as in the October Surprise phase - was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada. Undefined
• After more than a year of political struggle between different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote.
• More broadly, the Shiites can use this provision to place their ayatollahs over the elected parliament, as in Iran, because they alone are authorized to determine the ‘rules’ of Islam.