Word: ayatullah
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...Iranian students, with the approval of Ayatullah Khomeini [Nov. 19], seem to be proving that Islam is-at least in the Iranian version-a religion that emphasizes revenge rather than forgiveness. They evidently consider revenge on one very ill man the ideal to put first in the life of their country...
...surrender the Shah to the Iranian courts in exchange for deliverance of the Ayatullah Khomeini to our courts, to be tried for kidnaping...
Although the Ayatullah Khomeini has publicly endorsed the blackmail tactics of the students and openly called for the Shah's execution, I believe that underneath this crowd-pleasing facade he no more wants the Shah dead than I do. Khomeini knows that as long as the Shah is alive and as long as he can continue to portray the U.S. as the "great Satan power," he has a cause around which he can rally his revolutionaries. Were the Shah dead, Khomeini would soon be forced to face the real problems of the country. No Khomeini doesn't want...
...violent antiWestern, anti-American reaction of the mobs reflected the uncertain currents of emotional fervor that the Ayatullah has helped loose within the volatile world of Islam...
Wrote Washington Post Television Critic Tom Shales: "The Ayatullah Khomeini has the world by the networks...