Word: islamicizing
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Observers with a working knowledge of Iranian politics have largely been able to shrug off President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bluster and bullying, knowing the diminutive President must still answer to a far more powerful figure: Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Since 1989, the shadowy cleric - a former president himself - has...
• In 1979, after the Islamic Revolution ousted the Shah, Khamenei became one of the Ayatullah's primary lieutenants
• Has bristled at the notion of engaging with the United States, even after President Barack Obama signaled his Administration's desire to adopt a more conciliatory stance toward the Islamic Republic
"The Iranian nation needs nuclear energy for life, not weapons." - Insisting that Iran's commitment to uranium enrichment was born out of a desire to harness nuclear technology for peaceful purposes; he has repeatedly stressed this point, noting that the use of nuclear weapons would violate Islamic law (CNN, March...
See TIME's covers from the 1979 Islamic revolution.