Word: imam
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...that parliament was a likely target for bombing by insurrectionist forces. He then strove to assure Iranians that Iran is "the most stable country in the world." After naming Ayatullah Mohammed Reza Mahdavi Kani, a former interior minister, as Prime Minister to replace the assassinated Mohammed Javad Bahonar, the Imam intoned: "When a Prime Minister is assassinated, another is appointed the same day, and when a President is assassinated, another is elected right on schedule...
Beirut, Aug. 31. A bomb exploded in an empty Middle East Airlines Boeing 720. There were no casualties. Lebanese officials suspected that the device was planted by Lebanese Shi'ite groups protesting the 1978 disappearance of their leader, Iranian-born Imam Musa Sadr...
...Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i announced that Revolutionary Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had approved Algerian efforts to resolve the hostage issue. Said Raja'i: "We explained the Algerian proposal, which has suggested that it will guarantee to solve our problem with the United States, and the Imam permitted us to accept these guarantees." But Raja'i made no attempt to explain what those guarantees were...
...according to strict Islamic tradition. They welcomed their leader by chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and holding aloft Khomeini portraits. One of the militants stepped forward and read a prepared text. The Majlis decision, it declared, "does not mean the end of the conflict with America. As our Imam has said, we shall fight against world-devouring America until...
...senior mullahs, supported the deal. Cursing the organizers of the boycott as "truant kids," he pounded his fists so hard on his desk that his turban fell off The session was then adjourned until Sunday. Said Khalkhali: "This Majlis is incapable of solving the hostage problem. The Imam [Khomeini] should solve it himself...