Word: khomeini
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...sweeping boulevards nearby like Enqelab or Revolution Street). "It's too dangerous [to join the demonstration]," says an office manager who works in a tony neighborhood in north Tehran. "Just not worth it for me to go." (Read about how Iran's leaders are battling over Ayatullah Khomeini's legacy...
...coincidentally fueled by gatherings commemorating the 40-day anniversaries of those killed in street clashes). Nor do today's young protesters all want greater political freedoms, such as a free press or subjecting the nomination of the Supreme Leader to election. (See pictures of the long shadow of Ayatullah Khomeini...
...ever thought that Ayatullah Khomeini would crawl out of the grave to reclaim his revolution...
What kind of organization would this be? Iran currently does not really have national political parties with broad public participation, just political factions and loose associations of like-minded politicians. The history of parties over the past 30 years has not been encouraging. Ayatullah Khomeini founded the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) during the 1979 revolution that ended the rule of the Shah, corralling his various supporters into a single organization. Yet Khomeini used the IRP to push out the competing groups - secular and Islamic - that had taken part in the revolution, consolidating the postrevolutionary government under his auspices. Afterward...
...said, Peyman believes the Green Movement wishes for neither a revolution nor a change in the entire political system. Its most powerful appeal is to the founding documents and mythology of the Islamic Republic itself: a constitution ratified by the people in 1979 and particular statements by Ayatullah Khomeini that stressed the legitimacy of the state depending on the popular will. Perhaps this means that, in the future, the Supreme Leader should reign and not rule...