Word: ayatullah
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...outside Afghanistan. In an attempt to broaden his shaky political base at home, he announced the formation of a "national unity" Cabinet, giving unprecedented prominence to non-Communist and military leaders. And in an effort to mend regional ties he made flamboyant overtures of friendship to Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...service to Islam became a main theme in Karmal's diplomatic overtures toward Iran. He fired off a telegram to "Gracious Brother, Most Reverend Imam," the Ayatullah Khomeini. Karmal's message almost reverently appealed for an Afghan-Iranian revolutionary entente based on "Islamic brotherhood" and a shared hostility toward "American world imperialism-the No. 1 irreconcilable enemy of all the people of the world." Karmal promised that his government "will never allow anybody to use our soil as a base against Islamic revolution in Iran"-adding that "we expect our Iranian brethren to resume a reciprocal stance...
...government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini moved to challenge its foreign critics, it also cracked down on its internal dissidents. Following a week-long series of antigovernment riots by Azerbaijani militants, Revolutionary Guards in Tabriz raided and ransacked the headquarters of the Muslim People's Republic Party, which professes loyalty to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Four people were killed in the predawn assault; eleven dissidents were captured and executed by a firing squad after a summary trial. According to reports from Kuwait, several Iranian army officers were secretly executed for plotting a military coup against Khomeini's theocratic regime...
...across what he wanted to say, but by whether he had been goaded into more interesting- and presumably more revealing-candor. In Interview with History, Fallaci remembers Kissinger as "an eel icier than ice" and says, "I swear that I will never understand why he agreed to see me." Ayatullah Khomeini may have agreed to see her because she had been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind that sad face"). Fallaci wore a floor-length black chador to interview the Ayatullah, then, getting angry, dramatically...
...1970s diverged socially, politically and psychologically from the paths and contours that the futurists imagined. Actuality put the lie to most prophecies long before anybody in the U.S. had even heard of the Ayatullah Khomeini or imagined the trouble he would bring. Well before Iran, it was evident that forecasters, including the most respected, had flubbed by failing to foresee the fateful sagging in U.S. productivity, the influx of women into the work force (hence increased dual income), the decline in the birth rate, and the wrenching financial crisis in such cities as New York, Cleveland and Chicago. The 1970s...