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The mullahs confront an emboldened breed of Islamic leftists
In the turmoil of revolutionary Iran, the force that the mullahs fear the most is a tough, aggressive and shrewd group of Islamic urban guerrillas known as the Mujahedine Khalq. Last week the government charged that one of the guerrillas -a 23-year-old science student named Mohammed Reza Kolahi...
Today the Mujahedin are by far the best organized opposition to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Their leader, Massoud Rajavi, 33, commands a force of guerrillas estimated to be as large as 100,000, with several hundred thousand supporters among the intellectuals, workers, farmers and middle class. Says a Western intelligence analyst...
From Bedouin tent encampments to the traffic-choked streets of Riyadh and Jidda, Saudi Arabians by the hundreds of thousands turned introspective last week as religious sentiment swept their land. It was the start of Ramadan, the high holy month of Islamic fasting. But Ramadan or not, it was also...
Unlike the desert-dwelling Saudis, the coastal Arabs of Kuwait have a lengthy tradition of commerce with other peoples. Less orthodox in their Islamic observance than the Saudis, the Kuwaitis also have a more relaxed and open attitude toward banking and finance. Sniffing out a deal is in their blood...