Word: ayatullah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reached a new low last week. On two successive days, tens of thousands of Iranians marched past the U.S. embassy in Tehran, shouting insults and condemning American "intervention" in Iranian affairs. In a speech to 50,000 of the demonstrators, Ali Akbar Hashimi Rafsanjani, a close associate of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, charged that U.S. policymakers were responsible for the death of every Iranian killed during the revolution. "Who gave the deposed Shah his weapons?" asked Rafsanjani. "Who supported him as long as he could kill?" At week's end Rafsanjani was himself shot and wounded in an assassination...
...Ayatullah Khomeini denounced the U.S. as a "defeated and wounded snake" and termed Washington's relations with Tehran as those of a "tyrant with an innocent, a savaged victim with a plunderer. We don't need America. It is they who need us. They want...
...find work, they eke out an existence on a $200 to $300 monthly dole from the government. They also congregate in the streets, where their demonstrations for jobs have triggered violent reactions from the Orthodox Muslims and in particular the "komitehs," the local administrative and security arms of Ayatullah Khomeini. As one of the unemployed put it: "We have fights with komiteh members almost every night...
There is considerable tension between the workers and NIOC Chief Nazih. They had originally cheered him because he was the Ayatullah Khomeini's man, but now they view him with suspicion as they try to balance then" demands with the need to keep the industry going fairly smoothly and economically. Nazih, a lawyer, is in over his head trying to direct a complex oil industry, and his superiors know it. He may well be ousted soon...
...that ultimately led to the dismissal of 22 "leftist" journalists from the staff. After other staff members walked out in protest, the workers' council brought out an edition themselves and took copies to Khomeini's headquarters in the city of Qum. Their action was praised by the Ayatullah, who intoned that "the press must print only what the people want." Some Iranian journalists believe that Khomeini's followers may be trying to purge all potential critics from the press...