Word: khomeini
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...Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most important issue is, Should we watch unconcerned the emergence of what could be another Khomeini in the world's most volatile region? If the answer is no, then it is high time Western powers took more concrete actions to combat the mad dogs who slaughter innocent people. Governments must realize before it is too late that there is another Iran or Iraq lurking around...
...engineering professor, the soft-spoken Bazargan was imprisoned for his human-rights activism during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, making Bazargan a natural choice for Prime Minister of the provisional government formed after the Shah fled in 1979. But Bazargan's relationship with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a bitter power struggle, culminating in his resignation just nine months later...
...BAZARGAN, 87, Iranian academic whose lifelong campaign for democracy culminated in his brief premiership after the Islamic revolution; in Zurich. An engineering professor, Bazargan led the National Resistance Movement, which accused the Shah of human-rights violations. Imprisoned several times for his activism, Bazargan allied himself with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who made him Prime Minister of the provisional government after the Shah was ousted, in 1979. Bazargan's relationship with Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a power struggle, and Bazargan resigned just nine months later. ``The government has been a knife with no blade,'' he complained. Bazargan remained...
...BEEN ALMOST SIX YEARS SINCE Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini put a price on the head of Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses. Since then the world has grown ever more complacent about Rushdie's predicament even as he has done his share of -- entirely justified -- complaining and hectoring; the author now resembles, in some minds, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, a man doomed by an unwitting offense to go on talking about his fate to any listener he can corner...
...return. Hard-liners see Solzhenitsyn as a rival for the hearts and minds of Russian "patriots," and question his motives; he has already called ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky "an evil caricature of a Russian patriot." The weekly Zavtra, which speaks for hard-line nationalists, bitingly denounced his return: "Ayatollah Khomeini has landed in Vladivostok...