Word: ayatullah
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...week's end, Washington recognized Bazargan's new provisional government. The prompt way in which Khomeini forces came to the aid of the embattled embassy reassured the Carter Administration that Bazargan and the Ayatullah want to build friendly relations with the U.S. Washington was also impressed by the new government's help in arranging the airlift of the 5,000 to 7,000 Americans left in Iran. The U.S. had hoped that two chartered Pan Am jets could handle the exodus. In case of a real emergency, Washington had secured the permission of Turkey to allow...
...kind of conservatism. "I'm not happy with Bazargan's government," said Mariam Naza-rour, 17, a politically active student. "It's like the Pahlavi regime, but with a different name. We don't accept the Cabinet, and if everyone listens to the Ayatullah, we won't have a revolutionary republic. Iran is not just for the mullahs...
...that he had to surrender custody of Bakhtiar. Many educated Iranians feel that Bakhtiar was acting out of a sense of patriotic duty in accepting last month a post comparable to the command of the Titanic. Had he refused the Shah's offer, Bakhtiar might have been the Ayatullah's best choice to head the provisional government. But to most revolutionaries, he is simply the man who stood in the way of Khomeini's Islamic republic...
...Ayatullah bears much of the blame for the paralysis. From his place of exile near Paris last fall, he ordered his countrymen to go on strike against the Shah, and they obeyed. Last week Khomeini, his revolution triumphant, ordered Iranians to go back to work, and most were eager to do so. On Saturday the bazaar reopened at long last, and streets were clogged with traffic. More important, workers in the oil fields were apparently heading back to their jobs...
...truly lucky get close enough to toss a shawl or a handkerchief in his direction. Some Westernized Iranians are not particularly impressed by this evidence of a personality cult abuilding. "We didn't take down the Shah's picture merely to put up the Ayatullah's," complained a university student last week. But many of his countrymen do not agree with this view...