Word: ayatullah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle diplomacy is not unusual for Talbott, who describes his job as "looking over the tops of this week's headlines in an effort to anticipate the headlines of the future." Accordingly, he was in Iran only months before the revolution that toppled the Shah and brought the Ayatullah Khomeini to power. He visited Afghanistan in 1978, long before Soviet tanks rolled across the border...
...cities would have been held for ransom against a settlement that would give Iraq control of the Shatt al Arab waterway, which it reluctantly agreed to share with the Shah of Iran in 1975. One of Baghdad's ultimate political goals is to overthrow the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has urged Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims to oust Saddam Hussein...
...transportation for the Israeli faithful, who until 1978 were not allowed to make the hajj because they were citizens of the Jewish state. "The Iranians want to give the impression that they are the patrons of all Islam," said Gur-Arieh. Indeed, the pilgrims expressed profound gratitude to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini for his religious diplomacy, despite the fact that he is a leader of the Shi'ite branch of Islam while the Israeli Arabs are rival Sunnis. "Even if they cut my throat," said one pilgrim, "I'm for Khomeini...
...Iranian side of the conflict, the mood could not have been more warlike. At the militant exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the whole country rallied enthusiastically behind the government. Huddled in the dim light of candles during a blackout, Iranians listened over their radios to the 80-year-old revolutionary leader implore them to "resist with dignity and courage" and fight until the "infidels" had been driven not only from Iran but also from Iraq. When Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat showed up on a self-appointed mediation mission, Khomeini refused even to see him. And when Cuban...
...most, the principal menace is Iran. One reason is oil-the only source of wealth for many of these nations. The two-week-old war had shown dramatically what vulnerable targets oil installations can be. The gulf states fear that the Ayatullah, rather than accept defeat, might choose to go out with a big bang by bombing the oil fields up and down the gulf. At the same time, Arab countries tremble over the possible repercussions from Khomeini's Shi'ite Muslim fanaticism; most of the gulf rulers are Sunni Muslims presiding over nations with...