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...hardly the first time that the President and the Prime Minister had been at odds; Raja'i went so far as to lament that the President "does not consider me fit for the Education Minister's job, let alone the Prime Minister's." The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini refused to intervene, saying: "Try to reach agreement among yourselves." Said one politician in the clerical establishment: "He is tired of petty squabbling among the government leaders...
...Soviets engage in subversion, espionage and propaganda against Iranian government interests. But they never insult the Imam [Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini]. As I have often mentioned, the Soviets are no less satanic than the Americans. But they know how to avoid hurting the people's sensibilities...
...Banisadr, who is constitutionally responsible for nominating the Prime Minister, considered Raja'i headstrong, ill-informed and unfit for the job. In fact, the 47-year-old former mathematics teacher seemed to have had only one thing going for him: a fanatical attachment to the Islamic fundamentalism of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Perhaps the most brazen of all the mullahs, Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, thus consolidated his party's power and made good on a seven-month-old vow to reduce the popularly elected President to a figurehead. Even Banisadr's attempt to retain his constitutional veto rights over Cabinet appointments was rudely quashed by the mullahs. "The Prime Minister," insisted Beheshti, "must be free to choose anyone he deems fit for Cabinet positions...
Once again, Iranian students were protesting near the White House and testing the limits of American patience. As several hundred supporters of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini gathered last week in Washington's Lafayette Square, they were pelted with eggs, soft tomatoes and ripe fruit by an angry crowd of flag-waving Americans. "Go home! Go home!" shouted a gray-haired woman. Yelled a teenager: "The Shah would know how to deal with you. He'd have you beheaded...