Word: ayatullah
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...cover caused a sensation, including innumerable phone protests and a then record 3,430 letters to the editor. That controversy was far overshadowed in 1979 by the selection of the Ayatullah Khomeini as Man of the Year, which drew 14,180 protests...
...analysts say, are perfectly capable of presenting two faces to the outside world: the responsible, reasoned face that solicits Western loans and investments, and the rigid, ideological face that accepts murder and lies as tools of statecraft. "Iran is in a sense more dangerous today than it was under Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini," says a senior British diplomat. "Then the antagonism to the West was blatant. Now it is more nuanced...
...taste for broader contacts extends beyond Tehran. In Qum, a major religious center, clerics at the Ayatullah Golpaigani Research Center use Mitac desktop computers, on which they can call up 700 volumes of Islamic holy law encoded on Foxpro software. The center's director, Ayatullah Ali Korani, wants to network with U.S. universities. "I don't speak English or French," he says, "but I speak computer...
Four and a half years after the end of Iran's disastrous war with Iraq, nearly four years after Ayatullah Khomeini's death, a happier national spirit is struggling to emerge. The problem for outsiders is to square what sometimes appears to be a Persian lamb with a notably lion-like personality. The superficial prosperity of Tehran is illusory. Because of war and runaway population growth -- estimated at 3.6% a year, though that may be declining -- per capita economic output has shrunk about 40% since 1979. Many factories are running at only 40% to 50% of capacity...
Radicals of Egypt's Islamic Group would like to do to Mubarak what their fanatic brothers did to the Shah of Iran: topple him and install a purely Islamic government. They even have their own Ayatullah equivalent: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who calls passionately for Mubarak's overthrow from mosques in the U.S., including the one in New Jersey where some of the suspects in the bombing of the World Trade Center worshipped...