Word: jamaran
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...After Saturday night's savage crackdown in Jamaran, again today the worst was not long in coming. By the middle of the day, Ashura 2009 had produced its own martyrs...
...Since Friday, Facebook, Twitter and text messages were alive with talk of a speech by former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. It was to be held at a mosque in the north Tehran neighborhood of Jamaran, the last home of Ayatollah Khomeini, high in the foothills of the Alborz mountains...
...erroneous in the past, he has seemed increasingly frail in recent appearances and has not been seen in public since June 26, when he was shown on Iranian television greeting a group of Revolutionary Guards at a mosque next to his home in the Tehran suburb of Jamaran...
With halting steps, the pallid but ever fierce Iranian leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86, last week stepped out of his long seclusion. He appeared at the Jamaran mosque outside Tehran, where he made a speech to mark the eighth anniversary of the Shah's overthrow...
...Living off a strict regimen of boiled potatoes and raw vegetables, he is, say foreign visitors, rosy-cheeked and relatively healthy. His brother, Ayatullah Pasandideh, is still going strong in his late 90s. Though Khomeini has not been seen outside his closely guarded home in the old village of Jamaran for three years, he still oversees every political aspect of his country's day-to-day affairs, while holding court each day before a host of visitors...