Word: ayatullah
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...become a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America. On the diplomatic trail from 1973 to 1976, he traveled 380,000 miles with the peripatetic Henry Kissinger. Van Voorst was rudely reminded of his former world of intrigue in 1979, shortly after he joined TIME, when he covered the Ayatullah Khomeini's rise to power. He found himself under surveillance from mysterious cars parked outside TIME's Tehran office, and was visited by agents who ransacked the bureau...
...first stop, Algiers, presented a long-awaited opportunity to extend personal thanks to the only country whose leaders were permitted by the Iranians to serve as intermediaries between the U.S. and the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini during the latter part of my term as President. Back then we were able, with the crucial assistance of the Algerians, to secure the release of the American hostages. President Chadli Bendjedid and his ministers now make every effort to nurture good relations among Arab nations, and especially with Iran and Iraq. They might very well be in a good position to act as mediators...
...warring nations, and advanced on Basra some ten miles away. The stakes in the fighting, which has settled into a ferocious standoff a few miles outside the city, could not be higher: an Iranian victory would demoralize the Iraqis and could topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whom Iranian Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has vowed to crush. The global importance of the war was shown anew last week when the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk moved to within striking distance of newly installed Iranian missile batteries that threaten shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf. Though Basra is usually closed to Western...
...ransom payments to Lebanese terrorists. The Washington Times published a copy of what it said was a letter written to Reagan late last year by Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian expatriate who acted as a middleman in the deals. In it, Ghorbanifar supposedly said he had made "substantial payments" to Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, a high Iranian official. Expanding on the story, the New York Times quoted sources as estimating that Ghorbanifar paid around $10 million to various Iranians and a group that financed the Lebanese kidnapers of American hostages. Ghorbanifar, contacted by TIME, had "no comment" on the letter...
...more weight to subjective evidence, including personal testimony about fear and harassment. But the final decision is still within the discretion of the Justice Department. Many immigration lawyers complain that its practices have been not only legally incorrect but politically biased. They charge that refugees from Communism or the Ayatullah Khomeini have a far better chance of gaining asylum than those fleeing governments that the U.S. counts as friends...