Word: ayatullah
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...declared the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last week in response to what almost any other nation would have considered a jolting setback. The President of the U.S. had just imposed historic diplomatic and economic sanctions on Iran, including the expulsion of 35 Iranian diplomats, and had asked American allies to join in isolating Khomeini's government. But in turbulent Iran, where the U.S. and its President are routinely denounced as "Satan," surrealism reigns, and any clash with Americans has become a cause for jubilation. All week long, Muslim leaders whipped up an emotional frenzy against the U.S., reaching an even...
...better instruction. However, the Good Samaritan on the dangerous road of modern leadership who stops too long to minister to a few fallen persons (the hostages) may harm his nation-or never get to his destination. Turning away from evil (the Shah) may invite a greater evil (the Ayatullah Khomeini). Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov seems to be inheriting more of the world than are the meek...
...next afternoon Iranian officials announced that Carter had sent two letters to Tehran. But to the Carter Administration's amazement, the Iranians insisted that one of the messages had been addressed to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeiniand had been remarkably conciliatory. According to Pars, the official Iranian news agency, Carter admitted past "mistakes" in U.S. policy, described the militants' seizure of the hostages as the "reasonable reaction of the youth of Iran" and proposed a joint American-Iranian commission to review "the problems of the two countries...
...President argued for five hours with his opponents on the Revolutionary Council, maintaining that he had received what amounted to a "formal and public" pledge from Carter and that the Council should now take control of the hostages. But Banisadr's clerical opponents, led by Council Secretary Seyyed Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, disagreed and carried the vote. After the session, Ghotbzadeh said that the Council wants "more information on the precise position of the United States...
...TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish were driven through a maze of back streets in Beirut to a nondescript building that currently serves as headquarters for the armed of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Young men armed with AK-47s guarded his office; a portrait of Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini hung on one wall. Arafat was finishing a letter to the Ayatullah when his guests arrived. Some of the points he made in a 90-minute conversation...