Word: akbar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before the meeting began, Iran's Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that, whatever happened, the revolutionary government was immediately bumping its price to $28.50. In a move that topped Iran's, Libya's Ezzedin Ali Mabruk then declared that his government was lifting its price to $30 per bbl. Not to be outdone, the Nigerians jumped...
There is no longer any dispute that SAVAK practiced systematic torture. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a member of Khomeini's Revolutionary Council, described to TIME'S Raji Samghabadi how SAVAK agents in 1964 lashed the soles of his feet with electric cable: "The flesh was torn apart, and the bones jutted out. There were multiple fractures." The agents, he says, also held a knife to his throat for hours, making small nicks and telling him to guess "when the blade might go all the way down and sever my head." Amnesty International in the 1970s described other methods...
...during a two-month transition period until the voters could approve a new theocratic constitution and elect a National Assembly and a President. Whether the internally divided Council will quietly retire after those elections, now scheduled for January, is another question. Last week Khomeini Confidant and Council Member Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told TIME's Raji Samghabadi...
...Akbar Moinfar, 46, is a Japanese-trained seismologist who is now Iran's acting Oil Minister. Though no zealot, Moinfar shares Bani-sadr's enthusiasm for economic self-sufficiency...
...Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" The Arabic pronouncement that "God is great" sustained the Iranian revolutionaries as they marched through the streets of Tehran in demonstrations against the Shah. The invocation was heard again as students attacked the U.S. embassy, and as mobs last week marched about the captured compound, demanding death for the hostages...