Word: khomeini
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...city in southern Lebanon, there was a brief invasion of another kind. Into Sidon, by bus from Beirut, came a ragtag army of Shi'ite Muslim militants, swearing vengeance against Israel and Lebanon's Christian leadership and vowing to rebuild the country in the image of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Iran...
...regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has tried to ensure that Iran is contaminated by no joy, no color and no foreign culture. Morals police patrol the country publicly abusing or sometimes arresting women with even a trace of makeup. Men are not permitted to wear sleeveless shirts. "In the view of the Islamic Republic," says one Iranian, "a happy face deserves no hearing...
...response, detachments of Islamic Guards, acting on informers' tips, have been raiding homes and confiscating tapes. The government apparently fears that the Jackson clubs could influence Iranian youth to turn against the regime's fundamentalist dogma. With good reason. "When the regime treats a smile as an anti-Khomeini gesture," notes one former resident of Tehran, "a Michael Jackson tape is more dangerous than the Communist Manifesto...
...million people in the occupied territory. Many of the Shi'ites originally welcomed the Israelis as their liberators from the P.L.O., which had created a state-within-a-state in the region. Since then, however, a minority of Shi'ite fundamentalists, followers of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, have launched their own attacks against the Israeli army, with the support of Syria. Israeli officers point out that nearly 50% of Israel's fatal casualties have occurred since the expulsion of the P.L.O. from its Lebanese strongholds...
...clear message to the regime of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini that the episode at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran had still not been resolved as far as the Reagan Administration was concerned. The six-day hijacking had come to a dramatic end early last week when three Iranian security officers disguised as a physician and cleaning crew slipped on board the grounded Airbus and rescued nine hostages, including two Americans, who were found tied to their seats. Four Arabic-speaking hijackers, thought to be linked to the same pro-Khomeini Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist groups that some...