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Critics argue that the case against a generous arms sale policy is as compelling as the one for it. The most vivid example of the limitations of weaponry to win friends and influence countries is Iran: after $10 billion of arms deliveries, the Shah was deposed and replaced by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's violently anti-American regime. The occasional success that the Soviets and Americans have had in wooing each other's clients proves that the influence secured by sales can be less than lasting. As Andrew Pierre puts it: "Longterm weapons are sold to what may be short-term...
...disparaging allusion to the devotional habits of its most fervent believers, "the five-times-a-day prayers, the unnecessary fasts." He forgets that all religious observances are "unnecessary," except to those who practice them. In his judgments of the new fundamentalism, he begins to sound as harsh as any ayatullah railing at the great satan in the West: "This political Islam was rage, anarchy...
...real perceptions of the Arabs, and particularly the Palestinians, toward Sadat are exceedingly complex. Leaving aside Gaddafi (as well as that non-Arab Muslim fanatic to the east, Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, who late last week called on Egyptians to overthrow "the dead Pharaoh's successors" and replace his government with a Khomeini-style Islamic republic), the Arabs felt betrayed by Sadat. What was statesmanship to the West was treason in their eyes. Of course, they envied him: they could not forgive him for getting back more Arab land by negotiating than they had achieved by other means. They were...
...This is the month of blood. Khomeini will fall." Chanting that refrain, throngs of young men and women opposed to the repressive theocratic regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini began marching in the streets of Tehran one morning last week. Acting on government orders to "exterminate the heathens," members of the Islamic Guards quickly went after the protesters. But the Guards were trapped by leftist Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas who had positioned themselves on rooftops along the streets. The government conceded that 36 Islamic Guards were killed in the ensuing battle, which raged over a 6-sq.-mi. area for more...
...week of bad news, the Ayatullah's government hoped to recoup, psychologically at least, by claiming a massive turnout in the country's third presidential election. Though results will not be official until midweek, it was a foregone conclusion that the Islamic republic's third President would be the clerics' approved candidate: Hojjatoleslam Ali Khamene'i, 42, a Majlis (parliament) representative still partly paralyzed from the explosion of a Mujahedin-planted bomb last June...