Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mehdi Haeri, a onetime student of Khomeini's who now teaches at Georgetown University, feels that Khomeini has changed over the years: "He's more militant now. He's more stubborn, less flexible, less subtle." As they try to analyze Khomeini from a distance, some Western intelligence sources conclude that he is an authoritarian personality who thinks almost totally in black-and-white terms, has only a limited tactical flexibility and is unlikely to tolerate any challenge to his power. He has strong narcissistic traits and reacts to threats by demagogy. But Khomeini is capable of backing away, albeit reluctantly...