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Nura Hossainzadeh’s praising of Ayatollah Khomeini (Opinion, “Individualism in Iran,” Oct. 8), if anything, serves to demonstrate the strength of intellectual diversity at Harvard. Indeed, where else would I be able to find a classmate so in awe of a man who, upon coming to power, held 53 American Embassy workers hostage for over a year, instituted laws decreeing death for homosexuality and stoning for adultery, and jumpstarted Iran’s program of funding terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East...
According to my aunt, this particular palace had become a museum. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution had never lived there. Imam Khomeini, who led the revolution, had lived in a small, mud-brick house after...
...It’s funny that the Americans have chosen to station themselves in the old presidential palaces of Sadaam Hussain,” I remarked, “while Imam Khomeini chose not to live comfortably in any of the shah’s extravagant palaces...
...average American has a dramatically different image of Imam Khomeini and the ideologues of the Islamic revolution. The revolution is perceived as a victory of religious extremists over Western ideas, embodied by the very Western shah. Their values are considered dramatically different from American values; their revolution the inevitable historical antithesis of the American...
IRAN In 1983 Abdolkarim Soroush, a philosopher named by Khomeini to oversee the "Islamization" of Iran's universities, quit his job. Ever since, he has been a leading thinker in pushing the case for a reformed Islam and a democratic Iran, and slowly but surely the movement has gathered momentum. Today Iran's progressive Islamic thinkers are nothing less than intellectual pop stars among students in Tehran, with heady sales of books on such topics as Islamic reform and democratization...