Word: ayatullah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were to paint a picture of the devil, I would use the eyes of Ayatullah Khomeini. They are cold, calculating, cruel, cunning, void of love and honor. I'll take a big toothy smile any day to this man's hard expressionless stare...
...bigger voice in the post-Shah government than they have so far been allowed. Under the banner of the Marxist fedayeen, an overflow crowd of 60,000 shouted "Down with U.S. imperialism!" and other slogans. In a feeble attempt at rhetorical counterattack, a few hundred supporters of Bazargan and Ayatullah Khomeini charged in chanting "Islam is protecting you. Islam has saved Iran...
Kraus says that it was "almost a miracle." Until then, he had not known whether any of his comrades at the embassy had survived. He had been spirited away from the hospital by leftists and turned over to the Komiteh, an offshoot of Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic Revolutionary Council. Early efforts by the embassy to arrange Kraus' release were unsuccessful because the Komiteh did not inform the Bazargan government that it had him in custody. Before long, the Kraus case reached Jimmy Carter's attention. The White House pressed hard for information on Kraus, and even...
...Arabs." Added another official: "Camp David is no longer our No. 1 priority." What alarmed the Egyptians was the specter of a highly armed, militant Iran making common cause with such radically anti-Israel Arab states as Iraq and Libya. P.L.O. Leader Arafat was reported to have conferred with Ayatullah Khomeini in Tehran last weekend, and the Iranians have declared their intention of turning the sacked Israeli mission in Tehran into a Palestinian embassy...
Energy Secretary James Schlesinger told a congressional subcommittee that there is no assurance that Iran's new leaders can persuade the Marxist-led oilfield workers to start the wells pumping soon again, even though Ayatullah Khomeini has ordered them back to work. At best, production would rise slowly to a maximum of about 3 million bbl. per day within six months. Increasing the flow to the normal 5.8 million bbl. would require the return of foreign technicians, an unlikely possibility. Yet, said Schlesinger, unless Iran begins substantial production soon, frequent shortages of gasoline will show up this summer...