Word: ayatullah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return: unruly mobs, intermittent breaks in telephone and telex communications, and a power blackout that forced him to type one long report by flashlight. Arriving in Iran under extraordinary conditions, however, is not new for Van Voorst: nine months ago he was on the same plane with the Ayatullah Khomeini on his triumphal return from exile outside Paris...
...innocence and impotence, of tyranny and terror, of madness and mob rule. Blindfolded and bound, employees of the U.S. embassy in Tehran were paraded last week before vengeful crowds while their youthful captors gloated and jeered. On a gray Sunday morning, students invoking the name of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini invaded the embassy, overwhelmed its Marine Corps guards and took some 60 Americans as hostages. Their demand: surrender the deposed Shah of Iran, currently under treatment in Manhattan for cancer of the lymphatic system and other illnesses, as the price of the Americans' release. While flatly refusing to submit...
Saddam Hussein faces potential opposition from two of Iraq's dissident populations: the Kurds in the north, who share with their ethnic cousins in Iran a yearning for autonomy, and Shi'ite Muslims in the south, whose political consciousness has been further raised by the Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution. Shortly after the July executions, he announced that 1,000 Kurdish tribesmen would be allowed to return to Kurdistan from exile in the south. On a visit to the predominantly Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, he reiterated his support for an autonomous area where the Kurds will have their...
...willing, reports of the deposed shah's affliction with cancer are true.'' So said Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, with his customary generosity to a fallen foe. The reports were indeed correct. Last week Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, flew from his lavish, well-guarded home in exile at Cuernavaca, Mexico, to New York City's LaGuardia Airport on a chartered jet that airline officials had first been told would only be carrying a ''valuable shipment'' from the Bank of Mexico. Weak and frail-looking, the Shah shuffled into a limousine...
Indeed, the Ayatullah's Foreign Ministry announced it would send a doctor to New York to monitor the Shah's illness, and angry Iranian students picketed the hospital with signs demanding DEATH TO THE SHAH. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 people, including Henry Kissinger,' sent get-well telegrams to the ailing ex-monarch...