Word: ayatullah
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...Called for more attention to values in the curriculum, with a place for religion in course content. "We have absolutely won the debate on religion," he exults, noting that when he first asserted that textbooks were neglecting religion, "people said, Omygosh -- Ayatullah!" Now, says Bennett, both liberals and conservatives agree with...
...ordinary business, Manucher Ghorbanifar would cut an implausibly mysterious figure. Officially, he has been a shipping executive in Tehran and a commodities trader in France. By his own account he was a refugee from the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which confiscated his businesses in Iran, yet he later became a trusted friend and kitchen adviser to Mir Hussein Mousavi, Prime Minister in the Khomeini government. Some U.S. officials who have dealt with Ghorbanifar praise him highly. Says Michael Ledeen, adviser to the Pentagon on counterterrorism: "He is one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever...
...account sounds hard to believe. But then, who would have imagined even three months ago that the U.S. would get caught slipping arms to the Ayatullah's regime? In the byzantine world of the weapons dealers, it is as hard to determine what is truth and what is disinformation as it is to disentangle the mixture of visionary and conniver in the personalities of Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi. As investigators probe deeper into the scandal, Americans can only hope that Washington's policy does not prove to be as devious as the arms merchants say it was -- and as their...
...struggle for succession in Iran first surfaced when the U.S. arms-for- hostages scandal was revealed last November. It reached a peak last month during an extraordinary televised confession by Mehdi Hashemi, a leading radical politician and a close associate of the Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, 64, Khomeini's officially designated successor. Hashemi and a number of henchmen were arrested on charges of murder, kidnaping and sedition. According to reports from Tehran, the state's evidence includes such exotic weapons as vials of cyanide, booby-trapped shoes, exploding ink pens and remote-control model airplanes equipped with explosives. In early...
...with another opportunity to seek a negotiated settlement for a war that the Iraqi President started in 1980 and has long since come to regret. But given Khomeini's capacity for wreaking vengeance upon his bitterest enemy, it may be that peacemaking is something he will reserve for the Ayatullah's eventual successor...