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...expel Western influence and to turn Iran into a pure Islamic society. The Ayatullah has never claimed the title of Imam for himself, but he has done nothing to discourage its use by his followers, a fact that annoys some of his peers among the Iranian clergy. Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini's most potent rival for popular reverence, has acidly observed that the Hidden Imam will indeed return, "but not in a Boeing 747"?a reference to the plane that carried Khomeini from France to Iran...
...Greek philosophy and can discuss Aristotle with animated admiration; Iran's new constitution is an Islamic version of Plato's Republic, with Khomeini as philosopher-king. His peers, however, generally believe that on matters of Islamic scholarship he is less profound than some of his fellow ayatullahs?notably Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Numerous Western scholars who have spoken to him have been shocked by his ignorance of modern life. He knows little of the non-Muslim world, and regards it with morbid suspicion...
...revolutionary government. One document described him as "actively interested in maintaining contacts with the United States and sincerely trying to mend bilateral relations between Iran and the United States." Summoned to Tehran, supposedly for consultations, Entezam was arrested at the airport on charges of disloyalty. Meanwhile, the Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini's chief religious rival, went into seclusion. As a result, his disappointed followers, the Azerbaijanis, who had been demonstrating for two weeks in Tabriz, suspended their protest against the central government...
...Azerbaijanis in northwestern Iran that has exacerbated unrest among Iran's other minorities, including the Kurds in the west, the seminomadic Qashqais in the south and the Baluchis in the southeast. All of Azerbaijan now appears to be virtually under the control of forces loyal to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini's chief rival (see following story). Late in the week, local air force and army units joined in a huge demonstration in favor of Sharietmadari in Tabriz (pop. 500,000), capital of East Azerbaijan province. In addition, Iraqi forces firing heavy artillery attacked an Iranian border post...
...only force restraining that revolt seems to be its leader, the mild and benevolent Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, 81, once the mentor of Khomeini and widely regarded as his spiritual equal, if not superior...