Ayatollah Khomeini

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• Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
• Ever since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence, against Rushdie for what some Muslims called the blasphemies in his fantasy-filled novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie has been in hiding under the protection of Britain's security police. The Stories Never Stop
• Ahmadinejad's program is reminiscent of the pronatalist policy Ayatollah Khomeini pursued following the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Nasim Novin: Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe?
• After more than a year of political struggle between different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote.
• After more than a year of political struggle between different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote.
• 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
• 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
• A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives
• 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'
• The Iranian-American moviemaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has brought his experience of TV documentaries to bear on the true story of an Iranian woman, Soraya M, framed as an adulterer by her husband in the early years of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran and stoned to death by her fellow villagers. The Stoning of Soraya M – review