Word: jamaran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Almost every day, government officials, military officers, clerics and foreign representatives travel to Khomeini's modest home in Jamaran, a village north of Tehran. Some have been summoned to brief the Ayatullah on everything from logistic problems on the Iraqi front to statistics on mosque attendance. Others who wish to see Khomeini must submit a request through a cleric who acts as an appointments secretary; Khomeini receives only a small proportion of those seeking an audience. Sometimes he will make an appearance at the mosque adjacent to his house. There...
Khomeini conceded that the loss of his President and Prime Minister was "difficult to bear," but he insisted that his regime would survive. "Our nation will not be shaken at all," he declared in a sermon delivered at the Hoseiniyeh Jamaran mosque north of Tehran. Though Khomeini asked his followers not to be "hasty and un-Islamic" in their treatment of suspects, his admonitions fell on deaf ears: last week Islamic tribunals sent 138 more opponents, including some teen-age girls, before firing squads, raising the total number of political executions since Banisadr's ouster on June...