Word: ayatullah
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...TIME correspondents, reporting some cover stories involves weeks, even months, of legwork, grueling sojourns to far-flung places and often tense encounters with figures in the news. So it was with this week's report on the Ayatullah Khomeini's revolutionary Iran and the mounting tensions in the Persian Gulf that Iran has precipitated. TIME's reporting team fanned out to the far corners of the Middle East and the major capitals of Europe and to Washington to talk with various government officials, diplomats and academic experts about the ominous confrontation between Iran and the U.S. -- and indeed the world...
...logged thousands of miles crisscrossing the gulf region from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. His real preparation for this week's assignment, however, began nearly nine years ago, when he started covering Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution. That brought him eyeball to eyeball with the Ayatullah, whom Jackson interviewed in a Paris suburb in 1979. "Back then," recalls Jackson, "none of us expected Khomeini would still be as domineering, provocative and full of vitality as his revolution. The passions that I saw sweeping the country then have not diminished...
...White House has tried to cast it that way. Last November it faced rapid-fire revelations about an unhinged 15-month effort to trade arms for hostages with Iran's saturnine Ayatullah Khomeini. In addition, a plane carrying American gunrunners had been downed over Nicaragua, and the Administration's flat denials of complicity were being revealed as lies. Then Attorney General Edwin Meese stumbled upon the diversion of funds from one enterprise to the other...
...embassy battles began over Wahid Gordji, an interpreter and the son of a doctor who tended the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini during a Paris stay in the late 1970s. French officials sought to question Gordji about bombings that killed eleven people and injured 161 others in Paris last year. Though Gordji has not been charged, he has reportedly been linked by police to a Lebanese who has been charged with complicity in the bombings. French authorities suspect that Gordji may be a leader of an Iranian intelligence network. Police surrounded the 19th century sandstone embassy after concluding that Gordji...
Knocking down his previous story that he had been on such chummy terms with the President as to joke with him about the delicious irony of sending the Ayatullah's money to the contras, the Marine placed a proper bureaucratic distance between himself and the top boss. (This wisecrack, North conceded, had been uttered out of the President's hearing as he and his superior, National Security Adviser John Poindexter, left a White House meeting.) North said he had never even discussed his far-flung secret operations one-on-one with the President. But, he insisted, "I assumed that...