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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khomeini is not opposed to Western technology. Indeed, he has used it shrewdly?first in distributing cassette tapes of his anti-Shah sermons throughout Iran before the revolution, more recently by exploiting television to maintain his popularity with the people. He has read deeply in early Greek philosophy and can...
Iranian army uniforms; they must have been, he says because Muslims do not kill fellow Muslims.
His vivid denunciations of assorted opponents as "devils" and "agents of Satan" have persuaded some American politicians that Khomeini is?in the words of Egypt's Anwar Sadat ?"a lunatic." Not so, conclude most Iranian scholars. "I don't think he's crazy," says Columbia University Historian Richard Bulliet...
We have been screaming for justice, for having our grievances redressed. The U.S. Government placed the Shah on the throne?that is, the Allies appointed him [in 1941] after ousting his father Reza Khan [who was] a British stooge. The U.S. Government consistently helped him stay in power in the...
Q. You have called the Shah a criminal, but you have not been specific. Could you give a rundown of what you feel his crimes were?