Word: ayatullah
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...Graham, spoke for the American street when he told a television interviewer, "The God of Islam is not the same God [as that of Christianity]. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion." The American street is now willing to employ ayatullah vocabularies--to think in fatwas...
...Graham, spoke for the American street when he told a television interviewer, "The God of Islam is not the same God [as that of Christianity]. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion." The American street is now willing to employ ayatullah vocabularies - to think in fatwas...
...question of legitimacy is flagrant in Iran, where President Mohammed Khatami and his supporters won all the popular elections but could not win real power, which instead resides with Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. In Syria it seems there is no way out of Hafez Assad's authoritarian legacy. If Saddam Hussein finally falls from power in Iraq, heaven knows who might replace him, so ruthless has he been in suppressing rivals. Yasser Arafat's lack of a mandate has made him unable to make historic decisions in the peace process, so he instead alternates between directions...
...Saudi Arabia-based Islamic World League declared that 'the communist aggression aims at eliminating the Muslim presence in Afghanistan'... Even Iran's fanatical leaders denounced the Soviet invasion. During an audience with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Soviet Ambassador to Iran Vladimir Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against cia and Zionist agents, two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes...
...long enmity toward the United States dissolved in an extraordinary outpouring of compassion. President Mohammed Khatami boldly declared: "On behalf of the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic, I denounce [the attacks] which led to the killing of defenseless people." Days later a similar condemnation came from Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Could the horrific attacks spur rapprochement between Iran and the "Great Satan"? If Khamenei's remarks last week are anything to go by, the answer is: not yet. Speaking to a gathering of veterans of the war with Iraq, Khamenei bluntly told the U.S. "We are neither with...