Word: gilani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likes the idea. Most mujahedin leaders reject outright any suggestion of sharing power with the Afghan Communists, who will be powerless without their Soviet backers. U.S. Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost raised the issue with rebel leaders last week in Islamabad but made no headway. Said Sayed Ahmed Gilani, chief of the National Islamic Front for Afghanistan: "We told Mr. Armacost that the future government in Kabul will be 100% Afghan, without any Communist...
...mullacracy extends the same harsh treatment to independent-minded individuals. In 1982 Khomeini betrayed few qualms about having his former right-hand man and Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, executed; last July, when his fiercest hanging judge, Ayatullah Mohammed Gilani, asked permission to spare 340 penitent political prisoners, the Ayatullah overruled him and sent them instantly to their deaths. The government continues to interpret "counterrevolution" broadly enough to cover a multitude of so-called sins. Homosexuals, drug dealers and unfaithful wives are all targets for the firing squads. A woman who neglects to wear her head scarf may find herself thrown...
...raids, guerrillas surrounded an Islamic Guard training base at Sardasht, in Kurdistan, and attacked it with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. More than 30 guards died in the assault. Yet another incident underlines the seriousness of what amounts to an undeclared civil war in Iran: early this month, Mehdi Mohammadi Gilani, son of Khomeini's chief Islamic justice, Ayatullah Mohammadi Gilani, was killed in an armed clash with the guards. He was the third and last Gilani son to die fighting the regime that his father protects...
...parents should bring, the paper said, "birth certificates bearing their [the girls'] pictures." At a press conference Gilani defended the trials and executions of the girls. "By the Islamic canon," he said, "a nine-year-old girl is mature. So there is no difference for us between a nine-year-old girl and a 40-year...
...fundamentalists. The most illustrious victim was Poet Said Soltanpour, who had been arrested at his own wedding several weeks before. As an indomitable opponent of the Shah, Soltanpour had been tortured for his views by the SAVAK, the imperial secret police. At his summary trial last week, Soltanpour told Gilani that he regarded the Islamic Republic as a reactionary and corrupt regime that would soon be "crushed by the people it has betrayed." Gilani sentenced him to death as a "crusader against...