Word: ayatullah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticize the Ayatullah for taking Iran back into the 19th century, and then nominate a man who wants to do the same thing...
...Crown Prince Reza, with its head resting on a pillow of sand, according to Shi'ite custom. On his deathbed the Shah had asked to be buried ultimately in Tehran near his executed generals, named Son Reza as his successor and prayed for the overthrow of the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...They could shoot down ole J.R., but they couldn 't keep him down. Already his ambition leaped to newer, more dizzying heights. The country needed a strong leader-why not a nearly martyred oil tycoon? As President, he'd send Bobby to beat some sense into that Ayatullah fella. Spread some Bs around the Kremlin; no way those old Russkies could resist the sight of Pam in a bathing suit. Inflation, recession, civil unrest? No problem at all in a Ewing dictatorship-at least not for Miss Elite's oldest...
...point, this ploy seems to have been successful. Gaddafi did send a personal note to Khomeini urging once again that the hostages be freed. But the request had no impact at all on the Ayatullah for a reason that should have been quite clear to the White House: Gaddafi had no influence with Khomeini. Even more baffling was Brzezinski's use of the unorthodox Billy channel when State Department routes for approaching Gaddafi had been carefully cultivated...
Tabatabai had been a popular figure around Washington in his days as press attaché at the Shah's embassy. After the fall of the regime, he organized the Iran Freedom Foundation, a vocal anti-Khomeini group that denounced the Ayatullah's regime with leaflets churned out in Tabatabai's basement. The police were quick to launch a man hunt after an eyewitness culled through 400 photos of Muslim militants...