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...political reforms and an end to martial law and press censorship. Tehran's normally thriving bazaar was still locked up tight. The merchants had shuttered their shops three months ago out of respect for Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims and the spearhead of anti-Shah dissent. At his headquarters outside Paris, Khomeini repeated his do-or-die demands that the Shah must...
Were the Russians behind it all? Some observers in Tehran thought so, citing the fact that the Soviets have made contact with radical Shi'ite mullahs. Peking, predictably, blamed Moscow's "hegemony," a code word for expansionism, in its comments on the crisis...
AYATULLAH KHOMEINI, 80, chief mullah (religious leader) of the country's Shi'ite Muslim sect, to which 93% of all Iranians adhere, and symbol of resistance to the Shah. Khomeini was exiled in 1963 for opposing the Shah's land-reform program, ostensibly because it conflicted with Islamic law. He directs an almost messianic campaign to overthrow the Shah from a white stucco house in the French village of Neauphle-le-Château, not far from the home of Brigitte Bardot. Five times a day French gendarmes stop traffic while the ayatullah (a Persian term meaning...
AYATULLAH SHARIETMADARI, 76, a Shi'ite scholar who speaks for the conservative, religious-based resistance to the Shah from within Iran, as Khomeini speaks for it from without. Sharietmadari, who lives in the holy city of Qum, is slightly less militant than his fellow mullah. He believes in an Islamic state but has not ruled out a constitutional monarchy so long as it adheres to Islamic principles. A holy war, he argues, is acceptable only as a last resort-that is, if the Shah ignores the Islamic community's legitimate demands. He insists on the segregation of sexes...
...Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, a loose alignment that includes a broad spectrum of political groups ranging from conservative to leftist, flew to Paris to talk with Ayatullah Khomeini, the dissident mullah who is spiritual leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims. Aides to the Shah confirmed that the monarch intends to confer with Sanjabi when he returns this week. There is speculation that he may be considering a government that would be headed by National Front members...