Word: ayatullah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article on the illegal sale of arms to the Ayatullah Khomeini [July 25], you point out that millions of dollars worth of U.S.-made weapons flow to Iran. One would think that U.S. armament firms would be satisfied with the huge profits they make on Defense Department contracts, along with the generous subsidies for research and development. But by supplying arms to Iran, these merchants are selling their pride, their patriotism and their moral credibility...
...Ayatullah is crazy like a fox. It is we who are the lunatics supplying weapons to our enemies...
...expert "facilitator," the Harvard negotiations professor. Hence the vogue for peace academies, the mania for mediators, the belief that the world's conundrums would yield to the right intermediary, the right presidential envoy, the right socialist international delegation. Yet Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, to take just two candidates for the Roger Fisher School of Conflict Resolution, have perfectly adequate phone service. They need only an operator to make the connection. Their problem is that they have very little to say to each other...
...inflexibility shown by the P.L.O. leaders, especially Yasser Arafat. They have refused any kind of compromise and have been the rudest of guests whenever an Arab country has extended hospitality to them. They have also allied themselves with villains like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini. Arafat is getting what he deserves...
...Bahrain thus is an inviting target for an Islamic revolution imported from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. The island in fact was part of Persia until Sheik Isa's ancestors, who came from Qatar, drove out the Persians in 1783. Since the revolution that brought Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power, Iran has stepped up its claims to Bahrain. In 1979 a prominent ayatullah loudly proclaimed that Bahrain was Iran's 14th province. In 1981 the government foiled a plot to assassinate Sheik Isa and key members of his government. About 70 people were arrested; though...