Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...militance took on a mad and sinister cast: terrorists set fire to a movie house in Abadan, killing 377 people. In an attempt to placate the religious conservatives, the Shah two weeks, earlier had installed Sharif-Emami as Premier, largely because he was respected by Iran's moderate Muslim clergy. Sharif-Emami closed gambling casinos and restricted other practices considered offensive by the Shi'ites. He also lifted a ban on the formation of political parties. Only the Communists remained outlawed. Said one of the mullahs at the time: "Our Prague spring cannot last long. But will the Shah understand...
After the mullahs, the most visible opposition to the Shah has come from the universities, where there is frequent agitation. Some students are Marxists who preach outright revolution. Many are Muslim activists, following the mullahs in their demands for an Islamic state. Vast numbers of others are caught up in the revolution of rising expectations; growing up in an atmosphere of increasing affluence, they are frustrated by the slow pace of economic and political change...
...pictures of Muslim fashion in Iran...
...looks like anything but a revolutionary. He has a kindly, gentle manner. A revered scholar, he spends most of his days sitting on the floor of his bone-bare home in Qum, discussing the subtleties of Islamic thought with theological students who come to him from all over the Muslim world. His name is less a symbol of political resistance than that of Ayatullah Khomeini, 80, who has been in exile since 1963 and now lives in Iraq. But among those mullahs still inside Iran, Sharietmadari is the acknowledged leader of his nation's conservative forces...
...that distinguish him from the rest of us." But Sharietmadari is also tough and politically canny. He opposes the regime for many reasons, including its record of torture, censorship and bribery. Despite his public modesty, he displays total confidence about his status among his 32 million Shi'ite Muslim followers...