Word: ayatullah
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...hypermorality isn't exactly a return to the days of the Ayatullah Khomeini. Today the tactics are subtler than in the past, when morality police were dispatched onto the streets of Tehran to harass youth. Instead, regular Iranians are being cowed into the role of enforcer...
...Klein states that "no one really does know who runs Iran." As an Iranian who lived there for 15 years, I would say that the Islamic Republic is directly controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and that President Ahmadinejad is merely a mascot for the regime. That type of government is a simple dictatorship. Aryan Mojtahedi Montreal...
...Your unprecedented holy war and steadfastness are beyond the limits of my description. It's a divine victory. It is a victory for Islam." AYATULLAH ALI KHAMENEI, Iran's Supreme Leader, lauding Hizballah after a cease-fire was declared between the Lebanese militants and Israel...
...what is right for the U.S., then worry about everyone else. Joy Cassell Orlando, Florida Klein states that "No one really does know who runs Iran." As an Iranian who lived there for 15 years, I would say that the Islamic Republic is directly controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and that President Ahmadinejad is merely a mascot for the regime. That type of government is a simple dictatorship. Aryan Mojtahedi Montreal Finding the Way to Peace Robert Malley's viewpoint on U.S. policy in the Middle East [July 24] is absurd. According to his theory, the next logical...
Klein states that "no one really does know who runs Iran." As an Iranian who lived there for 15 years, I would say that the Islamic Republic is directly controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and that President Ahmadinejad is merely a mascot for the regime. That type of government is a simple dictatorship...