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...worry to the Iranian revolutionaries. Replace U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, who is thought to have been too close to the Shah. Train some of our State Department officers in Farsi "and send them over in waves. And get people over there very quickly who understand Shi'ite Islam...
...growing number of intellectuals, professionals and members of the middle class fear that instead of ushering in a new era of freedom, the revolution will result in an Islamic dictatorship as repressive as the Shah's regime. Those worries deepened last week when Khomeini passed along his guidelines for the reform of Iran's legal code. He ordered Justice Minister Assadollah Mobasheri to repeal all laws that "contravene Islam." Henceforth, all trials must end "in a final, absolute decision in a single phase." The right of women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under...
What makes you fear the Islamization of the oilfields? Islam is the faith of pragmatism, mercy and equalization, and does believe in development. An Islamic government in Saudi Arabia allowed the flow of oil to the U.S., despite the U.S. Administration's resistance to a settlement with the Palestinians...
...Shah government than they have so far been allowed. Under the banner of the Marxist fedayeen, an overflow crowd of 60,000 shouted "Down with U.S. imperialism!" and other slogans. In a feeble attempt at rhetorical counterattack, a few hundred supporters of Bazargan and Ayatullah Khomeini charged in chanting "Islam is protecting you. Islam has saved Iran...
...concerned that the blood of martyrs has been spilled for nothing." Khomeini, determined to curb freelance violence of the type that resulted in the assault on the U.S. embassy two weeks ago, denounced the leftists as "non-Muslims" who "are at war with the philosophical beliefs of Islam." Cowed by the Shi'ite leader's vehemence, the leftists called off the march, which would have violated a ban on demonstrations, and substituted the soccer-stadium rally. Though Tehran University is a center of leftist activism, the meeting turned out to be comparatively tame...